Florida Law

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke with officials about Florida's new social media law that bans children 14 and under from accessing some platforms. And we have a conversation about media literacy and fact checking.

The groups claim the law violates the First Amendment and posits that parents should be the ones to decide what platforms or websites their children access and use.

HB 621, on squatters' rights, would expand the definition of “transient occupants” in two ways: It would include renters without a notarized lease and tenants without a receipt of rental payment to the property's owner.

If residents of countries including Cuba, Venezuela and China don’t register properties by the Jan. 31 deadline, they can be hit with $1,000 per day in property liens — or potentially have their property seized.

WMFE spoke with Melanie Guldi, associate professor of economics at the University of Central Florida, about how Florida's new abortion law might affects you and the state economy.

After a state legislative session that produced a series of new laws regarding education, WUSF is airing teachers' voices, in their own words, about what they see as their main challenges.