January 14, 2022
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Designed to protect victims, Marsy's Law is protecting police from accountability | Editorial - South Florida Sun Sentinel

Protesters gather at the makeshift memorial for 13-year-old Stanley Davis III on Federal Highway in Boynton Beach on Saturday, January 1, 2022. The teen died in a crash, after he left a gas station on his brand-new, red dirt bike - darting off as a police SUV approached. His family and protesters argue the child's death could've been avoided had the officer not followed behind.
Protesters gather at the makeshift memorial for 13-year-old Stanley Davis III on Federal Highway in Boynton Beach on Saturday, January 1, 2022. The teen died in a crash, after he left a gas station on his brand-new, red dirt bike - darting off as a police SUV approached. His family and protesters argue the child's death could've been avoided had the officer not followed behind.

Boynton Beach provides the latest example of how a well-intentioned effort to help crime victims is being misused throughout Florida.

In 2018, voters approved a constitutional amendment to create a public records exemption for victims called Marsy’s Law. The law is named for Marsy Ann Nicholas, a University of California at Santa Barbara student who was stalked and murdered in 1983.

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