Florida's state wildlife law enforcement agency used a police database to snoop on more than a dozen of its critics, two Florida news outlets reported, raising concerns of First Amendment retaliation.
The Orlando Sentinel and the Miami Herald both published stories last weekend revealing that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) secretly investigated outspoken opponents of the agency's policies using the state's Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID), access to which is tightly restricted to legitimate law enforcement purposes.
