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Whistleblower Rebekah Jones wins dismissal at a price
- cratermoon 4y agoThe state got what it wanted. They shut her up for a sufficiently long time and destroy her reputation sufficiently. If this happened to a public health worker in China, the US would be screaming political corruption, intimidation, human rights violation, and everything else about her case.
- hprotagonist 4y agofunny thing, lord of people are saying exactly those things!
- jemmyw 4y agoWhile I agree that the state acted worse and that there is injustice here, she herself was very politically and professionally unsavvy. Push back against a policy you think is bad: yes, make a fuss, leave and go to the media: yes. Take matters into your own hands while at work and directly do what you've been told not to do: no. On the balance of her past actions it seems likely to me that she did take access and take data from those systems when she wasn't supposed to. Perhaps it seemed innocent enough to her at the time as well. But again, really unsavvy, not necessary for whistleblowing, not really helpful to anyone. Hell, she could have taken the data, written it to a usb drive and buried it somewhere for future reference and nobody would have been the wiser (if it was her). Instead it was used to send a message to health workers. She basically put herself in front of the law to stamp her foot and shout she's right. Maybe she is right, but she could have shouted via other avenues. Instead she has given more fodder to those she's disagreeing with.
- fumeux_fume 4y agoLol. Yeah, she's the asshole here.
- jemmyw 4y agoI can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I didn't say and don't think she was being an asshole necessarily, or perhaps she was a little but the state massively overreacted. I'm just pointing out she wasn't careful at all.
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoAccording to this article Rebekah Jones is “A scientist with no criminal record” but according to her Wikipedia article (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Jones#Legal_issues https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Jones#Legal_issues) “Jones has had prior criminal charges” including cyberstalking and domestic violence. While I am generally inclined to believe anyone vs the state (of Florida or otherwise), it is also possible that she’s an… unreliable witness.
- toxik 4y agoThis is one of those cases where I would be hesitant to believe WP about the details.
- Nicksil 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Jones#Legal_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Jones#Legal_issues
- dmitrygr 4y agoThose statements are not contradictory. One could easily "have no criminal record" AND "had prior criminal charges" Record is when you are convicted, while charges are simply that someone somewhere claimed something, but a jury of peers found said claim not certain beyond a reasonable doubt.
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- EdwardDiego 4y agoCharges have to become convictions to get a criminal record.
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- pastor_williams 4y ago> The case against Jones is now closed and the state agreed to dismiss the charge in exchange for $20,000 and an admission of guilt, though even the agreement has come with its own controversy. This is a win? I guess she isn't doing prison time, so that's something.
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- Invictus0 4y ago$20k is peanuts for what they put her through.
- macinjosh 4y agoNot a whistleblower.
- cbsmith 4y agoThe Florida's Office of the Inspector General would appear to disagree with you: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article251762323.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25176232...