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The Florida data scientist who claims she was fired by the health department for refusing to alter COVID-19 data said she'll turn herself into police after a warrant was issued for her arrest

. "Still, the state has issued a warrant for my arrest - even though the 'crime' is not related to the warrant, the scope of the warrant, and they didn't wait for a third party to review confidential information on my computers."

Last week, a judge in Tallahassee declined to rule over whether state officials needed to return Jones' property seized during the raid until officials decided whether they planned to charge her in connection with what was obtained during the warrant on her property, as the"To protect my family from continued police violence, and to show that I'm ready to fight whatever they throw at me, I'm turning myself into police in Florida Sunday night," Jones said in another tweet.

In May, Jones, who worked on the state's COVID-19 dashboard, was fired by the Florida Department of Health. State officials said then Jones had been fired forand her "blatant disrespect for the professionals who were working around the clock to provide the important information for the COVID-19 website."

Jones, however, said her firing was the result of her refusal to alter COVID-19 data. At the time, Jones said her managers at the Florida Department of Health had told her to delete data that showed Florida residents had tested positive for COVID-19 as early as January. She also said she declined to alter data that would've made it appear that certain counties had met the criteria to scale back restrictions when they hadn't actually yet met such criteria. .

"Bogus charges designed to silence and now jail me for being a scientist critical of the government," she said. "That's the textbook definition of

 

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Their governor is out of control. He’s a Trump dictator want to be

This is starting to look like a witch hunt and DeSantis from be held accountable for abuse of power.

Outrageous! Governor Ron DeSantis is arresting those that would inform the Public of his failure to aid Floridians. Who is his role model? Castro? Duvalier? He uses the FDLE like the Tonton Macoute

JoeBiden as precedent -elect you should keep an eye on what happens to this women, Florida is doing censorship on the truth about COVID-19

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