To Stop School Shootings, Fla. Will Merge Government Data, Social Media Posts

As part of their efforts to prevent school shootings, Florida lawmakers mandated the creation of a centralized database that will combine individual-level records from the state’s law-enforcement and social-services agencies with information from people’s personal social media accounts.  The provision, tucked within the 105-page law passed in March following the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas…