“Rebekah Jones, the former Florida official who says she was ousted from her job managing the state’s COVID-19 data for refusing to censor and alter case information, said Monday that armed officers raided her Tallahassee home and took all of her tech hardware. Jones, who was fired in May from her job in which she led data scientists and public health experts at Florida’s Department of Health, posted a video she captured of the Monday morning incident in which at least four officers entered with a warrant on her computer. “He just pointed a gun at my children,” Jones yells in the footage after telling the officers that her husband and two kids are also in the house. 1/There will be no update today. At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech. They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint.They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids.. pic.twitter.com/DE2QfOmtPU— Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah) December 7, 2020 After her ouster in the spring, Jones went public with allegations that her superiors had told her to put misleading and false information on the public-facing COVID-19 dashboard, which people could use to track data about coronavirus infections in Florida. The information they asked her to post would have over-counted the number of COVID-19 tests performed and under-counted the total number of cases, she said, as Florida rushed to reopen its economy. She also said she was asked to remove evidence of people testing positive for the virus in January. She has since launched her own coronavirus dashboard, where she has been posting daily updates on case counts. The police took the phone and computer she uses to post that information, she said, telling her they were related to a security breach and a complaint filed by Florida’s health department. 2/They took my phone and the computer I use every day to post the case numbers in Florida, and school cases for the entire country.They took evidence of corruption at the state level. They claimed it was about a security breach. This was DeSantis. He sent the gestapo.— Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah) December 7, 2020 Jones accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of sending the police to her house. When reached for comment, his office directed HuffPost to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which did not immediately respond. FDLE, however, provided a statement about the incident to U.S. News and World Report, saying it’s still an active investigation. “This morning FDLE served a search warrant at a residence on Centerville Court in Tallahassee, the residence of Rebekah Jones,” the statement said. “FDLE began an investigation November 10, 2020 after receiving a complaint from the Department of Health regarding unauthorized access to a Department of Health messaging system which is part of an emergency alert system, to be used for emergencies only. Agents believe someone at the residence on Centerville Court illegally accessed the system.” Jones said she’ll return to work running her dashboard on Tuesday. “If DeSantis] thought pointing a gun in my face was a good way to get me to shut up, he’s about to learn just how wrong he was,” she tweeted. “I’ll have a new computer tomorrow. And then I’m going to get back to work.” A HuffPost Guide To Coronavirus Which airlines are blocking out middle seats for holiday travel? How does the coronavirus spread differently than the flu? Can you close your COVID “bubble” without losing friends forever? Is it safe to see grandparents over the holidays? How can you help a friend with anxiety when you’re also struggling? 每个人都应该得到有关COVID-19的准确信息. 通过今天成为HuffPost会员,支持无付费壁垒的新闻业-并使每个人都免费.
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