Eleventh hour budget deal includes $4M compensation for ‘Groveland Four’

By: Christine Sexton

Outlets: Florida Phoenix

Published: May 25, 2026

Words: 822

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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Florida legislators gathered Sunday to put the finishing touches on a roughly $115 billion state budget that will affect everyone from AIDS patients seeking crucial drugs to the families of four Black men wrongly accused of rape in 1949.

The House and Senate budget chairs met late into the evening Friday and again Sunday with an array of offers covering all elements of a spending blueprint for fiscal year 2026-27, which spans July 1 through …

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