Florida has a Republican governor, a Republican-led state House, and Republican-led state Senate. However, it also has some of America’s harshest forced quarantine and public health laws. Some activists plan to change this situation.
The freedom of Americans to go where they want is under attack from laws made to combat public health emergencies, said lawyer R. Shawn McBride, the president of the American Freedom Information Institute.
During the pandemic, state governments gave themselves unconstitutional amounts of power to quarantine every resident, McBride said. In Florida, these laws were revised in minor ways and re-signed into law.
In 2002, Florida passed Statute 381.00315. This law gives Florida’s state health officer huge amounts of power in a public health emergency….