DeSantis announced plans to convert a shuttered North Florida prison into an immigration detention center, replacing a ...

A new $39,000 state contract for a weather monitoring system and two lightning sirens was posted to a state website this week ...

Florida is planning a second immigration detention center at Camp Blanding, but construction depends on increased federal ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Baker County on Thursday morning. He will be speaking at the ...

The Florida Department of Emergency management purchased weather monitoring equipment for a 'North Detention Facility,' ...

WeatherSTEM is a Florida company, headquartered in Tallahassee. Questions for FDEM are still pending. On Aug. 1, DeSantis said the federal government has deported over 600 people from the South ...

Camp Blanding is a training site for the Florida National Guard near Starke. It has an air field, which the state plans to use to remove detained immigrants to their countries of origin, and is ...

Florida is moving ahead with plans to expand its immigration detention capabilities, with a new facility planned for the historic Camp Blanding National Guard ...

DeSantis announced the new detention facility Thursday morning, dubbing it 'Deportation Depot,' saying it would be a better facility to set up than Camp Blanding.

FILE - A sign marks the entrance to Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, a site used by the Florida National Guard, near Starke, Fla., July 15, 2025.

Sydney Johnson is a third-year Journalism Major at the University of Florida from Pompano Beach, Florida. In her time at UF, ...