Ashley Lopez: Health and law enforcement officials are in hot water after prescription information for about 3,300 Floridians was released to prosecutors and defense attorneys without their consent.

Ashley Lopez: Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed children of immigrants who are not U.S. citizens to obtain a driver license in Florida.

Ashley Lopez: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld a previous court ruling that stopped the state of Florida from drug testing Floridians receiving temporary assistance from the state.

Ashley Lopez: The executive board of the Republican Party of Florida voted to oppose the merit retention of Florida Supreme Court Justices Barbara Pariente, Fred Lewis and Peggy Quince, picking up a fight that conservatives have already lost once.

Ashley Lopez: The Broward School Board brought attention to an amendment teachers and civil rights advocates say could drain money from public schools and redirect those dollars into religious schools.

Ashley Lopez: Thousands of felons in Florida may not know that their voting rights have been restored because the state hasn’t notified them.

Ashley Lopez: A state senator, the ACLU of Florida and the National Council of La Raza filed a legal challenge against the state for having two sets of voting laws in Florida.

Ashley Lopez: Within a few days, Gov. Rick Scott’s effort to remove noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls has racked up an impressive number of lawsuits.

Tristram Korten: Gov. Rick Scott and Florida’s Republican-led legislature have become the national vanguard for testing the boundaries of accepted constitutional protections.

Tristram Korten: El gobernador Rick Scott y la Legislatura de la Florida, controlada por los republicanos, se han convertido en la vanguardia nacional para poner a prueba los límites de las protecciones constitucionales aceptadas.