A retired turtle farmer from Jupiter says he’s afraid of what law enforcement could do next after he learned a state agency searched his personal data 34 times.
This comes as recent reporting by the Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel uncovered that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers used driver’s license records of environmental activists who criticized the agency or spoke at public meetings.
The reporting found the FWC used the state’s DAVID system — known as the Driver and Vehicle Information Database — to monitor the activists since 2023. The agency said this comes amid threats of violence toward staff…