A bill to create a state intelligence operation would allow scrutiny based on \u2018opinions\u2019 \u2013 and could prompt other states to follow<\/p>\n
\u201cFlorida man seeks to create a state counterintelligence unit and claim sweeping surveillance powers over people whose \u2018views\u2019 or \u2018opinions\u2019 he dislikes.\u201d It\u2019s not nearly as amusing as the usual \u201cFlorida man\u201d headline, and it may lead to a blueprint for lawmakers far beyond Florida.<\/p>\n
If Florida enacts House Bill 945<\/a>, it will create a national first \u2013 CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work. It likely wouldn\u2019t remain a local experiment. Red states often borrow aggressively from one another\u2019s policy playbooks, on everything from gerrymandering to anti-abortion laws to transporting immigrants to Democratic-led states. A state-level intelligence office empowered to scrutinize residents based on ideology is precisely the kind of proposal likely to spread once normalized.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A bill to create a state intelligence operation would allow scrutiny based on \u2018opinions\u2019 \u2013 and could prompt other states to follow \u201cFlorida man seeks to create a state counterintelligence unit and claim sweeping surveillance powers over people whose \u2018views\u2019 or \u2018opinions\u2019 he dislikes.\u201d It\u2019s not nearly as amusing as the usual \u201cFlorida man\u201d headline, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}