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The program will compensate people who were at Dozier or the Okeechobee reform school between 1940 and 1975 and “who were subjected to mental, physical or sexual abuse perpetrated by school personnel.”
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They included a wide-ranging plan to expand access to health care, and a bill aimed at keeping children under age 16 off social media.
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Men who suffered abuse decades ago at two former state reform schools have been coming to the Florida Capitol for 16 years seeking restitution. They may finally succeed this year.
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The bill will go to the Senate, which is expected to pass it in the coming days.
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Decades later, survivors known as “The White House Boys” still struggle when recalling the mental, physical and sexual abuse they endured while in the state’s care at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna.
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A bipartisan bill going through the legislature would establish the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program.
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The infamous North Florida reform school closed in 2011 after a rocky 111-year history.
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State Sen. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, said “too many have died and have not been made whole."
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The bill (SB 288), filed by Sen. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, would create a certification process for victims of abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna and the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee.
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This year's Pulitzer Prize board awarded its first audio reporting award to the staff of This American Life for a piece on the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy.
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A House Democrat has filed a proposal that could be a step toward providing compensation to victims of abuse at two notorious state reform schools.Rep.…
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For most of the last decade, Erin Kimmerle has led a team that has tried to find the bodies of students who were buried at Dozier School for Boys – some…