Nine years after The Florida Times-Union revealed then-Public Defender Matt Shirk to have committed so many scandals they can’t be contained in a single sentence, an official body finally took action against the man. To recap Shirk’s background: He’d never defended a homicide case and had little experience when he ran for office in 2008 […]
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Duval County is doing better than other parts of the state at vaccinating Black residents
Florida’s racial disparities in administering the COVID-19 vaccines hasn’t budged in the last few weeks, with whites 2.7 times as likely to be vaccinated as Black residents. No county has seen Black residents more likely to receive a vaccine than white residents. Duval, however, has seen its rates fall to 2.2 times, just more than […]