Former COVID-19 data scientist Rebekah Jones signed a plea deal last week admitting guilt in a pending criminal case. In return, the charges against her will be dropped.
Florida police raid the home of Rebekah Jones, a former state Department of Health employee who built the state's COVID dashboard before she was fired.Rebekah Jones signed a plea deal last week admitting guilt in a pending criminal case. In return, the charges against her will be dropped.was charged with accessing a state computer system without authorization.
The agreement delays prosecution for two years and includes six conditions, including paying $20,000 to reimburse the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for its investigation costs and admitting guilt. If Jones meets conditions and is not arrested for another crime during the two-year period, prosecutors will drop the charges without Jones having to enter a guilty plea in the case officially. in December 2020 amid her controversial firing that made national newsProsecutors alleged Jones accessed a state computer system without authorization and sent a mass text calling on state employees to speak out against Florida's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By that point, Jones had become a well-known critic of Gov. Ron DeSantis and had filed a whistleblower complaint after
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