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• About 300,000 meals will be provided to local children as part of Second Harvest’s Food Bank program. Breakfasts and lunches are delivered to libraries, parks, and houses of worship.
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• More than 600 Puerto Rican families remain in Florida hotels and motels under FEMA’s Transitional Housing Program. Attorney and advocate Kira Moreno-Craft says with the program ending June 30th both the state and federal governments needs to step up with more affordable long-term housing solutions.
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• Calling all sculptors! Orange County’s taking proposals for its fourth annual Sculpture on the Lawn exhibit.
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• Florida’s wide open election is officially under way. Candidates running for the Legislature and state offices had until noon on Friday to qualify for the 2018 ballot.
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• A labor relations panel has upheld most of a judge’s ruling that a Teamsters union representing Disney World workers committed an unfair labor practice when it ignored members’ requests to resign from the union.
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• Matt Burke of the Deland-based Matt Burke Band moved from DeLand to Chicago. When he came back, he brought some Chicago Blues with him. He joins us to discuss music influences and bringing Chicago Blues to the Sunshine State.
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• Following an outcry over the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy that’s separated children from their parents at the Southern US border, President Trump signed an executive order that he says ends family separation. We’re joined by Orlando Immigration attorney John Gihon to discuss what this means for undocumented immigrants including children in detention.
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• Orlando International Airport will use facial recognition technology to process all of its international passengers. It’s the first US airport to use the technology for all departing and arriving international flights.
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• A controversial Amazon pilot program that utilized City of Orlando surveillance cameras for facial recognition has ended and it’s unclear if it will be extended.
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• Florida agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam says he wants more information about a South Florida detention facility for unaccompanied immigrant children. This week, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and fellow Florida Democrat, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, were denied entry to the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children.
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