Rebekah Jones made national headlines this week when the state leaked an internal report from Governor Ron DeSantis' Inspector General to the press, catching the pro-DeSantis media red-handed for illegally obtaining the final version before the state even sent it to Jones' attorneys.
The report, which found Rebekah told the truth about the state ordering her to hide and delete data from public access (though contended that's not a crime), has been hailed as a victory for Jones' case, according to legal experts.
"The state did its own investigation of itself entirely separate from my whistleblower complaint and still could not find proof that anything I said was false," Rebekah told The Miami Herald. "I didn't interview for this report, we didn't file our complaint with his IG, and yet they still couldn't disprove what happened in what is supposed to be their own narrative."
On the two most bombastic charges - that state officials pressured Rebekah to falsify figures for the purpose of misleading the public - the state's investigation of itself determined it could neither prove nor disprove what happened, despite multiple DOH employees submitting sworn statements supporting Rebekah's report.
Still, a neutral finding from what amounts to the state's own position statement is a considerable win, said Tallahassee attorney and former head of ACLU Florida Richard Johnson.
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