Former Broward County, Fl., Sheriff Scott Israel is campaigning for his old job after being removed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his officers’ failure to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students died in a mass shooting last year, CBS News reports. DeSantis suspended Israel after assuming the governorship this year and appointed former Coral Springs police Sgt. Gregory Tony to replace him. Israel filed his paperwork to run for re-election as sheriff in the 2020 Democratic primary. In the fallout of the shooting, two other deputies were fired for neglect of duty. One of those was school resource officer Scot Peterson, who was also arrested on criminal charges for child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury. The sheriff’s department lost its law enforcement accreditation over its mishandling of the mass shooting as well as a 2017 shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Meanwhile, the parents of Carmen Schentrup, a 16-year-old who was killed in the Parkland shooting, filed a negligence lawsuit against the FBI for its mishandling of tips about the gunman, the Miami Herald reports. Philip and April Schentrup allege that the FBI’s failures resulted in the death of their daughter and the other students and staffers. Former student Nikolas Cruz committed the massacre 40 days after an FBI phone operator failed to pass along a tip warning that Cruz wanted to kill people and “was going to slip into a school and start shooting the place up.” FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that the FBI had failed to follow protocol by not reporting the tip to the bureau’s Miami office. The parents of Jaime Guttenberg, 14, who was killed in the shooting, sued the FBI last year. The families of some of the Parkland victims filed 22 negligence lawsuits in April against the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the school district.