Bills filed by two Democratic state lawmakers would require law enforcement agencies in Florida to alert nearby schools and child care facilities when the suspect in a killing or violent crime poses an imminent threat.
Those imminent threat alerts would be called YaYa Alerts in honor of 9-year-old T’yonna Major, who was shot to death in Pine Hills near Orlando in February 2023.
T’yonna’s mom had picked her up from Pine Hills Elementary and brought her home that afternoon. They had no idea that a man had fatally shot 38-year-old Nathacha Augustin down the street and escaped just hours earlier…