Per the county charter, the Miami-Dade Police Department’s chief of police is appointed by the county Mayor. But not all of them.įor instance, Miami-Dade County is the only county in the state that does not have an elected sheriff. In reality, it only affects a few counties, since nearly all counties already have elected officials in these positions. Those offices are: Sheriff, property appraiser, supervisor of elections, tax collector and clerk of court. This amendment would require that all Florida counties elect five public officials, and forbids them from not doing so. Update: On September 7 the Florida Supreme Court upheld the lower court. The Supreme Court upheld upheld the lower court's ruling, and the item has been stricken from November ballots.Īmendment 10: Changing structure of local governments An oral argument was heard on September 5. The state appealed the decision to the Florida Supreme Court. In ruling against the state, Leon County circuit court judge John Cooper found that the current language “does not accurately inform Florida voters of the true effect of the proposed amendment.” He ordered the amendment taken off the ballot. Instead of using the term “charter schools,” the title and ballot language use the phrase schools “not established by the school board.” The CRC says it avoided the phrase “charter schools” because it doesn’t “know what innovations are to occur in education over the next 20 years or over the next generation.” And in an oral debate with the CRC, the commission acknowledged that changing the way charter schools can be started in the state was a “goal of the amendment.”Įssentially, the amendment would allow the state of Florida to establish charter schools on its own, something that is currently left to locally elected school boards. In fact, the word “charter schools” doesn’t appear in the language at all, which is why the League of Women Voters brought a case against it.Īs noted by Leon County circuit court in the final judgement against the state, earlier drafts of the amendment included the term. But you might not know that by reading the ballot title and summary language. This amendment would radically change the way that charter schools are created and overseen in Florida. This item has been stricken from November ballot.
DAYTONA BEACH NEWS JOURNAL AMENDMENT 3 UPDATE
Update September 7: The Florida Supreme Court has upruled the lower court. This page will be updated as the court makes its determinations: Īnd with that explanation, here is your guide to Florida’s ballot amendment challenges working their way through the court system. On a separate but somewhat related track is a current lawsuit asking the state of Florida to require 32 counties to provide ballots in the Spanish language, citing the recent influx of Puerto Ricans who fled the island after Hurricane Maria into those counties. Ballot items need the approval of 60% of voters in order to pass. That’s the day when the ballots get mailed out to overseas voters. The state Supreme Court has until September 22 to decide. Circuit court judges have ordered several of the amendments removed from the ballot because of misleading summaries and titles, but the Florida Supreme Court will make the final determination. More than half (7 out of 13) of the proposed amendments have been challenged and are actively making their way through the state court system. Whether voters will actually ever see those amendments at the ballot box is another story. In 2018 the commission met and came up with several ideas included in the 13 amendment proposals to send to Florida voters in the November 2018 elections.
Every 20 years the Florida Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) meets to propose changes of law to the Florida Constitution.
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