Editorial: Stifling transparency will damage trust between police, community

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Editorial: Stifling transparency will damage trust between police, community

State lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis should be working to find ways to bridge the gulfs of fear, anxiety and distrust widening between many Florida law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve. Instead, DeSantis just signed a pair of measures that could only serve to deepen those dangerous disconnections. HB 601 strips away the ability of civilian review boards to consider complaints about individual officers’ misconduct. SB 184 allo…