Broward County Public Schools News

Judge Rules Florida Deputies Fired Over Parkland Massacre Should Get Jobs Back

A Florida judge ruled Thursday that two deputies who were fired for inaction during a high school mass shooting in 2018 should be reinstated with back pay. Broward Circuit Judge Keathan Frink concluded that arbitrators last year were correct in …

Hackers Publish Florida School District Files After $40M Ransom Unpaid

Hackers who sought $40 million in ransom from a South Florida school district that refused to pay have now published nearly 26,000 stolen files. Many of the files, dated from 2012 to March 2021, contain Broward School District accounting and …

Florida School District Hit with ‘Bizarre’ $40M Ransomware Demand

The computer system of one of the nation’s largest school districts was hacked by a criminal gang that encrypted district data and demanded $40 million in ransom or it would erase the files and post students’ and employees’ personal information …

Parkland Parents Lose Bid to Hold District Liable for Not Warning of Student Danger

A Florida judge has ruled that a local school district had no responsibility to warn students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School of the danger posed by a former student who would later be accused of a mass …

Florida School District Drops Request for Parkland Parents’ Social Media Posts

A Florida school district abruptly dropped its request Thursday that the families of students and staff slain in a 2018 high school massacre be required to turn over their social media posts from that period as it tries to defend …

Parents in Florida School Shooting Lawsuit Asked to Prove Mental Anguish

Parents who sued a school district after their children died in a mass shooting at a Florida high school are being asked to turn over their psychiatric records to prove they have suffered mental anguish. The Broward County school district’s …

Florida Supreme Court Caps High School Shooting Liability at $300K

The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a school district can’t be forced to pay more than $300,000 total to the victims or their families in the Parkland high school massacre that left 17 people dead and another 17 wounded. …