Florida would get a statewide counterterrorism and counterintelligence unit under a bill that cleared the Budget Committee in ...

House and Senate committees were unfazed by the obvious First Amendment problems with the proposed Statewide ...

Florida Republicans want the state to have its own spy squad. Muslims are pretty sure they know who will be targeted.

Civil liberties advocates and several Democratic lawmakers warned the bill is overly broad and could sweep in protected speech.

Hillsborough Republican Rep. Danny Alvarez, a sponsor of the bill creating a counterterrorism and counterintelligence unit, speaking for the bill at a House committee meeting on Tuesday. The team ...

UPDATE (Friday, Oct. 3, 11:45 a.m.): Following bipartisan backlash from lawmakers and a fierce rebuke from the New York Police Department, Department of Homeland Security officials told the New York ...