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The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Florida police officers and any other crime victims can't shield their identity behind Marsy's Law, the 2018 constitutional amendment meant to grant more rights to victims of crimes.
Without officers’ names, the public also can’t identify patterns of misconduct or discover that problematic cops are moving from city to city.
Here’s what readers are saying in Tuesday’s letters to the editor.
The crusading ideologue — who demanded private Christian school-style mores in public schools, from grades K-12, when high-school students are either close to or already adults — is now facing the...

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  1. The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Florida police officers and any other crime victims can't shield their identity behind Marsy's Law, the 2018 constitutional amendment meant to grant more rights to victims of crimes.
  2. Head coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Seminoles holds up the trophy after the Florida State Seminoles defeat the Louisville Cardinals, 16-6, in the ACC Championship at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  4. Republican Party of Florida chairman Christian Ziegler, left, greets former president Donald Trump at the Republican Party of Florida's Freedom Summit in Kissimmee last month.
  5. Aerial drone photo of erosion and damage 48 hours after Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach in November 2022.
  6. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
  7. Former President Donald Trump arrives at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Aug. 24 in Atlanta.
  8. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was adapted to become a classic animated Christmas show in the 1960s.
  9. An employee at K&W Gunworks in Delray Beach shows a customer one of the weapons she was picking up at the end of the three-day waiting period.
  10. The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Florida police officers and any other crime victims can't shield their identity behind Marsy's Law, the 2018 constitutional amendment meant to grant more rights to victims of crimes.
  11. Reporters watch from an off-site hotel as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom engage in a snippy slap fight on the Fox News cable channel Thursday night.
  12. Chris Christie, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis take their places at their respective lecterns before the Fox Business Republican Candidate Debate held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in September. (© Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire)
  13. School classroom with blackboard
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  15. Tansheka Riggens, a student at St. Petersburg College, meets in person for the first time with her completion coach, Matt Smith, on Nov. 20 in St. Petersburg.
  16. This is a figurative representation of an old Neanderthal woman in the Neandertal Museum in Erkrath, Germany. The authors write that our Neanderthal cousins, a group of humans who lived across Western and Central Eurasia approximately 250,000 to 40,000 years ago, formed small, highly nomadic bands. Fossil evidence shows females and males experienced the same bony traumas across their bodies — a signature of a hard life hunting deer, aurochs and woolly mammoths.
  17. President Joe Biden greets Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, front, as he arrives on Air Force One at Denver International Airport on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
  18. The partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside killed 98 people.
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  20. Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom will debate Thursday on Fox.
  21. Scott Maxwell writes that "If lawmakers truly wanted to end Disney’s special privileges, they would do just that and have Orange County control the theme park’s governmental services — the same way the county does for every other business in its service area."
  22. Bay Pines National Cemetery in St. Petersburg is pictured on Memorial Day in 2016.
  23. Released Israeli hostage Sahar Kalderon is embraced by a relative upon her arrival at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv on Monday after being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (IDF via AP)
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