PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—A bill that seeks to make apartment complexes safer by requiring background screenings on employees was quietly signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 27.
In a private ceremony the governor, according to a news release from his office, said the bill was signed in honor of Miya Marcano an Orlando college student who was killed last October by a maintenance worker at the apartment complex where she lived.
Marcano was a 19-year-old Valencia College student who went missing and was found a week later. Her body had been bound with duct tape near another apartment complex.
After the investigation was completed law enforcement found that the maintenance worker had used a master key to access her apartment….