Florida's New Terror Law: Targeting Dissenters?

0:00It's April 7th. This is Tampa Bay News today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed a new law, letting the state label certain groups as domestic terrorists and cut off their public funding. The head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement gets to decide who qualifies and is already stirring up major pushback. Groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, teamed up with five others, including churches, Jewish coalitions, and legal. Advocates to rally against a Tuesday. They call House Bill 1471, a tool to silence dissenters, especially on college campuses. This comes right after chaotic protests at the University of South Florida earlier this year, where students got expelled. Organizes worry it'll target student groups next, and they slam parts about banning Sharia law as fear mongering with no real basis. DeSantis fired back, saying it's just like what federal agencies do, using solid intel to keep state dollars away from outfits tied to known terror.

1:02Groups. He's already moved against CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood before, but court stepped in. Now the process is rolling to pick those first targets, leaving everyone watching close as Florida draws these battle lines on speech, security, and who's really calling the shots.