Florida News That Impacts You – April 23rd, 2025

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.    

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Brian Mud Joe podcast is driven by Brayman Motor Cars.
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should be too. Visit Braymanmotorcars dot com. This is Florida's
news that impacts you on the Brian Mudshow. Yeah, Brian
Mudd and Joel Malkin with you, and this happened yesterday.

(00:22):
Fox is even brown.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Florida Attorney General James Oathmeyer is suing Snapchat, claiming they're
violating the state's law against miners under fifteen accessing social media,
but he adds that Snapchat's temporary messaging system he is
becoming a hunting ground for those praying upon children.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Snapchat is advertising to kids as young as thirteen, and
kids are able to access these applications and receive photographs
and things without knowing what it is.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
And that with messages vanishing, it's harder to catch the
bad guys.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, so he's going after snap Inc. The parent of Snapchat,
on all these things, signing up people that are too
young for social media accounts, to scept to practices, and
lacking printal warnings. All that. Governor DeSantis he received eight
bills from the Florida legislature yesterday on the bills that

(01:15):
he now will decide to either sign into law or
veto the service of process Bill, which expands office hours
for registered agents to make them more accessible to people
who need them. Leaving the scene of a crash involving
only damage to vehicle or property. It allows courts to
order drivers convicted of leaving the scene of a crash

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to make restitution payments for the damage caused to vehicles.
Diabetes Management in Schools. This authorizes school districts or individual
public schools to acquire medicines and maintain supplies of medicines
for diabetics on campus. The Electronic Delivery of Notices between

(01:58):
landlords in ten This would authorize landlords to be able
to electronically deliver notices to tenants. The Surrendered Infants Bill.
This allows parents to anonymously surrender infants up to thirty
days after birth without penalty. Florida Trust Code Bill, which

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would grant the Attorney Attorney General exclusive authority to represent
interests related to charitable trust in Florida. Fentanyl Testing Bill.
It would require hospitals and hospital based off campus emergency
departments now when they run urine analysis tests to test
for finnel as part of that a review under the

(02:42):
Open Government Sunset Review Act. This was kind of a
wonky one. It would modify public records information held by
the Office of Financial Regulation in financial technology. The governor
has until next Tuesday, the twenty ninth, to make his
decision on those bills. Bal Beach Guy District has adopted
an emergency rule to eliminate DEI policies within the district

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to main remain compliant with federal funding regulations, and will
formally enact the policy change during today's scheduled board meeting.
As Joel's been reporting, and as I actually told him
behind the scenes yesterday, I said, all they're going to
do is slap a new title on this guy.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right, Keith Oswald, Chief of Equity and Wellness. So he'll
have a new title and responsibilities.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, he'll be like the chief Warm and Fluffy Guy
now or something. The school district said it stood to
lose three hundred million dollars in federal funding without the changes. Today.
Parlocottas Guy's warm tims highs in the mid eighties, a
little bit warmer than usual for this day. We can
expect similar weather the rest of the week and gas prices,
and they rose five cents per gallon again on Tuesday.

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The average price four regular unleaded back up to three
thirteen this morning, the Palm Beaches three twenty eight, Martin
three nineteen, and in Indian River County three fourteen per
gallon