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Breaking: Florida Senate passes Dozier bill

   March 4, 2024

Florida Senate this morning passed a bill that would provide $20 million to compensate victims of abuse at the shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna and another state reform school in Okeechobee County.

The House passed it last Thursday. The bill know goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Filmmaker Catherine Hedden shared the photo above of the Dozier School survivors watching the floor vote.

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