Grand Jury Recommends 4 School Board Members Be Removed Over Parkland Shooting

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A Florida grand jury empaneled after a deadly mass shooting at a Parkland high school has recommended that four members of that school board be fired. The grand jury in a report released Friday called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to suspend Broward County school board members Patricia Good, Donna Korn, Ann Murray and Laurie Rich Levinson. It also criticized former Superintendent Robert Runcie and former board member Rosalind Osgood, who is now a state senator. The grand jury has been investigating circumstances surrounding the 2018 shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead. The board members did not immediately respond to requests for comment nor did DeSantis.

The accused school board members and Osgood did not immediately respond Friday to calls and emails seeking comment. Runcie’s attorney did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

DeSantis also had no immediate comment. He fired former Broward Sheriff Scott Israel just after he took office in January 2019, saying Israel's lack of leadership contributed to the Stoneman Douglas shooting. The grand jury report says the Broward school district seems to be more focused on how it is viewed publicly than on actual accomplishment.

"Broward County has provided a cornucopia of examples of an almost fanatical desire to control data and use it to manipulate public perception, including that surrounding safety," the grand jury wrote. Runcie and the accused board members “are seemingly obsessed with the optics of any situation and control of public impressions of their activities.”

“The District produces training materials on ‘Building the Brand’ as though the district were all important while its students were mere commodities and instructs employees to always consider how situations might affect the perception of the District as opposed to the reality," the jury wrote.AP writers Brendan Farrington in Tallahassee and David Fischer in Miami contributed to this report.

 

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