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First, lawmakers will consider making adults convicted of sexual battery on children under 12 a crime punishable by death.

President Biden said in a speech on Wednesday night that he will ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines “come hell or high water.”

Tuesday marks five years since 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

News4JAX reported last summer when that a grand jury found that Duval County Public Schools was significantly under-reporting crimes.

The community of Parkland, Florida, has gathered to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the murder of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Republicans and Democrats shared their sympathies on the fifth anniversary of the Parkland high school shooting, just one day after another deadly shooting at Michigan State University.

High schools and middle schools in Duval County will have extra security measures in place Tuesday, five years after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

A nonprofit organization in Florida is planning a public memorial dedicated to the 17 people who died during a 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The guardian program was introduced after the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and provides a framework for armed safety officers to police public and charter schools.

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A judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sentenced Nikolas Cruz to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

Prosecutor Carolyn McCann said during a brief hearing that they are not trying to invalidate Thursday's jury vote.

Eleven people working for one of the nation's leading turkey producers have been charged with animal cruelty in Pennsylvania after state police said they were caught on video kicking, stomping and beating turkeys at several farms.

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Democrats in Florida are trying to make inroads with Latino voters by focusing on gun safety.

Four school board members appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in one of Florida's most Democratic counties have been sworn in.

Four school board members appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in one of Florida’s most Democratic counties were sworn into office on Tuesday. The state's Department of Education on Monday voiced “significant concerns" about the school system's actions before, during and after the shootings of 17 people by Nikolas Cruz, a troubled former student who attacked the high school's campus on Valentine's Day in 2018. In a letter sent to Superintendent Vickie Cartwright, the state cited the grand jury's finding of mismanagement of the $800 million voter-approved bond to renovate schools, the underreporting of criminal activity to the state, the district's “almost fanatical desire to control student data” and use it to manipulate public perception, and the practice of allowing students with serious felonies back on school campuses.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has removed four board members at the school district where a 2018 campus massacre occurred.

The defense for the gunman who killed 17 students and injured 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School argued he's a "damaged human being."

Twelve jurors and 10 alternates who will decide whether Cruz gets the death penalty or life in prison made a rare visit to the massacre scene.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been sealed and preserved since the 2018 massacre that left 14 students and three staffers dead.

Jurors aren't allowed to converse with each other - when they retrace the path Cruz followed on Feb. 14, 2018.

Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz have toured the still-bloodstained building where he murdered 17 people four years ago.

A woman who admitted her role in a scam that raised $400,000 using a fake story about a homeless man received a one-year prison sentence in federal court Thursday.

During the committee meeting, Rep. Biggs claimed Americans need assault weapons to protect themselves against an "invasion of the southern border."

The state's case against the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman will result in the jury deciding whether there was an aggravating factor.

Opening arguments began Monday in the penalty phase of the shooter's trial, in which a jury will decide if the gunman will be sentenced to death.

The 12 jurors chosen to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.

The 12 jurors chosen to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.

A Florida judge has refused to delay the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz in the 2018 shooting at a high school in which 17 people were killed.

Four years after a gunman shot up her high school, a young journalist finds herself writing about mass shootings again. In fact, she says, she never stopped.

The March For Our Lives movement was founded in 2018 after the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The gun-violence-prevention organization is gathering supporters again in response to another deadly school shooting.

In similar tragedies over the years, police encountered similar problems during the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

Clay County School leaders are pushing to keep a property tax increase in place to fund added school security.

Fourteen mass shootings at U.S. schools since 1999's massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado have killed a total of 169 victims.

"My innocent son Joaquin was shot four times with an AR-15. And today, we saw an 18-year-old in Texas was able to carry a weapon and kill kids inside their school."

"My innocent son Joaquin was shot four times with an AR-15. And today, we saw an 18-year-old in Texas was able to carry a weapon and kill kids inside their school."

Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz hit a new stumbling block when a potential juror wore a T-shirt potentially prejudicial to his case.

Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has entered its second phase with the attorneys asking questions of potential jurors individually.

Deputies protecting Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz had to pull him aside and surround him after members of a jury pool became potentially threatening.

The shooter has plead guilty to all 34 counts of murder and attempted murder after opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

The Department of Justice said the settlement "does not amount to an admission of fault by the United States" in its statement.

Over 40 civil cases were filed against the Department of Justice following the 2018 shooting.

Federal officials have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed and wounded in a 2018 Florida high school massacre over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.

Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has settled the 40 civil cases arising out of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The parties have been in litigation since late 2018, when the survivors of the shooting, and the families of 16 people killed, sued the government for damages. In October 2021, the shooter pleaded guilty to 17 counts of premeditated first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder. This was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. This case was handled by the Justice Department’s Civil Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Oliver, whose 17-year-old son Joaquin was killed four years ago in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, dropped a banner with a message for President Joe Biden.

It was on this day four years ago that 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In the four years since the deadliest high school massacre in U.S. history, violence in schools is rising.

The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be delayed until April.

The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

A South Florida school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed in the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The settlement is over the FBI's failure to act on a tip about the intended attack weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The settlement is over the FBI's failure to act on a tip about the intended attack weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Families of more than a dozen victims of the 2018 school shooting have reached a settlement with the Justice Department to resolve their lawsuit over the FBI's failure to act on tips about the gunman.

After the pleas were entered, some of the families of Nikolas Cruz's victims reacted on social media, many of them expressing contempt, heartbreak and a desire for the harshest punishment.

The plea comes more than three and a half years after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 14 students and three faculty members dead.

After being accused of hiding during the school shooting that killed 17, a school resource officer will face criminal charges for his actions.

Parkland shooting survivor says their dad believes it was a hoax after QAnon 'consumed his life'

President Joe Biden has told graduating seniors who were freshmen when a mass shooting left 17 people dead at their Florida high school that they've turned pain into purpose and darkness into light.

The embattled Broward County Public Schools superintendent at a top district lawyer who were both indicted on felony charges last week have agreed to step down and the board plans to vote on their replacements as early as Thursday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An appeals court says armed school guardians can be allowed on school campuses, striking down a challenge pushed by Duval County parents. A Duval County judge disagreed, and now the appeals court has upheld that ruling. That shooting led several school districts, including Duval County Public Schools, to create the school guardian program. Some argued that having armed guardians would cause more harm than good. The panel detailed changes made by lawmakers that aimed to create an exception from that law for school guardians.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As a precaution, Duval County Public Schools plans to continue enhanced security screening at district high schools when students return to class on Tuesday. Tracy Pierce, spokesperson for DCPS, said there was no specific threat and that the decision was made out of an abundance of caution. It’s unclear how long the district plans to keep the measures in place. The district is encouraging anyone who sees a threat on social media to share it with their school or police. One way to do that is to report suspicious activity at schools through the Fortify FL app or on www.getfortifyfl.com.

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with Senators from both parties in the White House on Feb. 11, 2021. President Joe Biden on Sunday called on Congress to strengthen gun laws on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer," Biden said. Fourteen students and three staff members were killed in the Parkland shooting. The House passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act and the Enhanced Background Checks Act during the last Congress.

Ron DeSantis ordered flags across the state be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Sunday to honor the 17 lives lost in the Parkland school shooting. Authorities said a former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School opened fire on campus with an AR-15 rifle on Valentine’s Day in 2018. When the gunfire ended, 14 students and three staff members were dead, and 17 others were wounded. In his proclamation for a day of remembrance, DeSantis asked fellow Floridians to pause for a moment of silence at 3 p.m. Sunday. The panic alert measure was dubbed “Alyssa’s Law,” in honor of 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff, one of the students killed three years ago.

President Joe Biden used the the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. The president used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. "For those of us who lost loved ones that day, it's pretty much like any other day. Even before the Parkland tragedy, there was already plenty of anguish in Florida over gun violence. “Today, as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence,” he said.

President Joe Biden used the the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. The president used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. "For those of us who lost loved ones that day, it's pretty much like any other day. Even before the Parkland tragedy, there was already plenty of anguish in Florida over gun violence. “Today, as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence,” he said.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Sunday marks three years since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. So every day is like Sunday for me.”On Thursday, Schachter helped launch the first statewide dashboard to reduce school violence — School Incident Report. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, along with Wisconsin’s Sen. Ron Johnson filed the Luke and Alex School Safety Act of 2021, an identical bill as was filed last legislative session. If passed, the bill would nationally systematize the bundle of school safety information compiled at schoolsafety.gov. “The Trump administration agreed with my idea, they created this school safety clearinghouse.”AdSen. Rubio said this centralized source for best school safety practices will provide schools some consistency nationwide.

As we approach the third anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, it’s a good time to reflect on the magnitude of the situation, as well as where it has led us from there.

She was part of the initial push to improve access to mental health services in Florida’s public schools following the Parkland shooting. “We need to ensure that mental health services are in place.”Dr. Cauffield says with the Florida legislature allocating $69,000,000 to go to these services, students and schools now have better resources. Dr. Cauffield says the team’s end goal is to de-escalate and assess whether a Baker Act is needed. These can be signs that your child may be suffering from a mental health condition. AdWhile strides are being made, Dr. Cauffield says for more to happen, the mental health stigma still needs to be addressed.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Sunday will mark three years since the Parkland High School mass shooting that left 17 students and staff dead. Manuel Oliver’s son, Joaquin, was one of the 17 killed in the Valentine’s Day mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Oliver, who says her son was also her best friend, is still waiting for lawmakers to take action. AdAfter the Parkland shooting, the Legislature increased the age to purchase firearms from 18 to 21. The same legislation also allowed trained school staff to possess firearms on school grounds.

Siding with the school board in December, Duval County Circuit Judge Robert Dees acknowledged that school guardians are not included in exceptions to Florida law allowing firearms on school campuses. But he found that the 2018 law authorizing guardians “in support of school-sanctioned activities” allowed school safety officers to be armed. Sonja Harrell, who represents the school board, argued that lawmakers intended that school guardians be armed, saying the plaintiffs were “cherry-picking” legislative language to support their position. The school officials pointed out that, under the law, guardians must undergo “a significant amount of firearms training” and have concealed weapons licenses. “These statutory requirements would be unnecessary if the Legislature did not intend school guardians to use firearms in the course of their duties,” the school board’s lawyers argued.

At the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Giordano crossed paths Thursday with Lori Alhadeff, who lost her 14-year-old daughter Alyssa in the Parkland school shooting. Giordano and Alhadeff are linked over their grief of losing children and working to get lawmakers to make schools safer, albeit in different ways. Alhadeff was back to urge lawmakers to require panic buttons at schools to more quickly summon for help. Ron DeSantis, public schools would be required to have a tub or other large container filled with cold water at the sidelines during all games and practices. The proposed law would also require schools to train personnel on how to recognize signs of heat-related ailments, including potentially deadly heat strokes, and to take life-saving actions.

A California man was sentenced Monday to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. Fleury was convicted by a jury in October of three counts of cyberstalking and one count of transmitting a kidnapping threat. On Fleury's electronic devices, authorities also found thousands of saved images of Bundy, images of the targeted victims and screenshots of the messages that he had sent the victims. Meanwhile, Cruz, 21, faces the death penalty if convicted in the Parkland shooting. His lawyers have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence, but prosecutors have rejected the offer.

In at least four cases, attackers wanted to emulate other school shootings, including those at Columbine High School in Colorado, Virginia Tech University and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. The study by the Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center is the most comprehensive review of school attacks since the Columbine shootings in 1999. Officials use that knowledge and apply it in other situations, such as school shootings or mass attacks. Since the Columbine attack, there have been scores of school shootings. The report covers 41 school attacks from 2008 through 2017 at K-12 schools.

The ruling Wednesday by the 3rd District Court of Appeal focused on whether the Miami Lakes Middle School student should have been shielded from prosecution because he posted the threat while off school grounds. Also, the attorneys argued that attempting to regulate off-campus speech made the law unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. The same could be said for a student seeking to interrupt standardized testing by telephoning the school from an off-campus location with a bomb threat hoax." But the court said "the statute limits any punishment for speech to that which causes a disruption to the school functions. Moreover ... the regulation punishes only that speech generating disruption, not speech merely intending to effect an impact."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Eighteen months after 17 people were killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, lawmakers are introducing a bill to crack down on the sale of gun ammunition. State Rep. Dan Daley and State Sen. Lauren Book said there's no oversight over the purchase of ammunition. "There's actual no check to make sure people don't have the ammunition," Daley said. There have 325 mass shootings in 2019, according to Gun Violence Archive. But it's more than likely that the ammunition was bought legally because of the lack of background checks on ammo purchases.

Copyright 2019 CNN(CNN) - As of Oct. 1, some Florida teachers can carry firearms on campus. The measure is part of a controversial bill Florida Gov. The bill authorizes school districts to implement at least one school-safety officer per public school. Some districts already arm teachers; others have banned itArming teachers was already legal in some school districts before the mass shooting in Parkland. The Florida bill entered effect on the second anniversary of the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Since the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, the push to make Florida schools safer has been at the forefront. If it is passed when Florida lawmakers return to the capitol next legislative session, it could be called "Alyssa's Law". The bill would require elementary, middle and high schools to have these buttons in each of their school buildings. The panic buttons would be used for a number of emergencies including, but not limited to evacuations, lockdowns, and active shooters. VIEW PDF: House Bill 23 - "Alyssa's Law""Alyssa's Law" became law in New Jersey earlier this year.

The state agencys budget request, approved by the Florida Board of Education on Wednesday, also contains an additional $1.4 million to maintain school resource officers in each Florida public school. Under sweeping legislation passed shortly after the Feb. 14, 2018 shooting in Parkland, all public schools are required to have trained, armed security personnel onsite. But up until recently, many schools -- particularly charter schools -- have struggled to comply with that requirement. Corcoran acknowledged Wednesday that charter schools have struggled to have armed security certified by the state. The move to increase spending to maintain school safety officers comes days after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission blasted charter schools for not having long-term plans to have armed security on campus.

Addressing mental health issues and hardening schools have been two high-profile education issues in the wake of last years mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. With that in mind, Florida Department of Education officials have proposed policy changes to address those two issues. State education leaders also want to make policy changes aimed at boosting the pool of mental health professionals that can work in schools. Judd applauded the move to expand access to mental health treatment for students. Thats why we need the mental health counselors, Judd said.

Ryan Servaites, Delaney Tarr and Trevor Wild speak with CBS News' Adriana Diaz. Lawmakers aren't listening, but this is quite literally life or death," Tarr said. Tarr, along with 16-year-old Ryan Servaites and 21-year-old Trevor Wild invited CBS News to their headquarters in Florida. "Students are sick and tired of planning vigils ... these are 15, 16, 17-year-olds ... and they're experts at vigil planning," Wild said. "Every time we see another shooting, it's this mixture of defeat, of anger, of renewed spirit," Tarr explained.

Calls from the media flooded the home of Nikolas Marciel Cruz after a gunman opened fire at the school on Feb. 14, 2018, killing 17 and injuring many more. Nikolas Marciel Cruz lives in Sunrise, which neighbors Parkland, where Stoneman Douglas is located. It was the first of many instances where her son was confused for the teen allegedly responsible for the shooting, who authorities identified as Nikolas Jacob Cruz. Oh my god! the man exclaimed after Nikolas Marciel Cruz introduced himself, Moran said. And though Nikolas Marciel Cruz, who has high-functioning autism, plans to keep his first name, he wants a chance to start anew when he begins college, where he plans to study history, his mother said.

The suspect in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Nikolas Jacob Cruz, makes a court appearance on a closed-circuit television screen. SUNRISE, Fla. - A Florida teenager wants to change his name because he shares it with the defendant charged in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. The mother of Nikolas Marciel Cruz told the South Florida Sun Sentinel her 18-year-old son got tired of being confused with Nikolas Jacob Cruz, the 20-year-old accused of killing 17 people. She kept her son out of his school the day after the shooting, fearing how other students and parents would react. Moran said Nikolas has high-functioning autism and wants a different name when he soon goes to college, where he plans to study history.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Department of Education will pay nearly $1.3 million to a company that will revise a tool used by all public schools to identify threats and vulnerabilities on campuses. After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, lawmakers required all school districts to complete school security risk assessments for the tool for all public schools, including charter schools. Those assessments were required to include information like a schools physical security measures, school security and operational practices, as well as crisis preparedness plans. According to a notice posted last week by the state agency, there was not a competitive bidding process for Haystax Technology to get the nearly $1.3 million contract. The agency said it picked to the company to revise the tool because the company had already gone through a competitive vetting process and was picked to develop and construct the tool.

(Reuters) - A Florida sheriff has fired two more deputies, alleging that they failed to take action to stop the 2018 massacre of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. The deputies, Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh, were terminated for neglecting their duty during the Feb. 14, 2018 shootings, Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said on Wednesday. In addition to the fatalities, 17 people were wounded in the assault in Parkland, Florida. Two Broward County deputies, Scot Peterson and Brian Miller, were previously accused of neglecting their duty during the shootings. No disciplinary action will be taken against the remaining three deputies, Tony said.

Sheriff Gregory Tony will hold a news conference at 9 a.m. to announce the completion of the internal affairs investigation following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Two additional deputies have been fired as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people, the Broward County sheriff said Wednesday. At a brief news conference, Sheriff Gregory Tony said deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were fired Tuesday for their inaction following the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting. A state investigative commission found that Stambaugh was working an off-duty shift at a nearby school when he responded to reports of shots fired at the school. Two other deputies were fired earlier this month for neglect of duty. The sheriff said no action was taken on three other deputies who were involved in the investigation.

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said two additional deputies have been fired as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the agency's response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people in February 2018. Tony said during a news conference Wednesday morning that deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were fired Tuesday for their inaction. Two other deputies were fired earlier this month for neglect of duty. The case against former Parkland deputy accused of inaction during shootingVideo showed Peterson staying outside a school building during the massacre, drawing national outrage. Tony said no action was taken against three other deputies and said the department is moving forward with making changes to officer training.