{"id":116403,"date":"2026-01-13T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116403\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:50:09","slug":"alligator-alcatraz-detainee-drops-suit-against-florida-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116403\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator Alcatraz Detainee Drops Suit Against Florida Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A detainee at the Florida immigration detention center known as \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d dropped his lawsuit against state officials over allegations that he was being held \u201ceffectively \u2018off the grid\u2019\u201d as he waited to be deported.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Kyle C. Dudek of the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida on Monday signed the detainee\u2019s request for dismissal after the man, named only as \u201cM.A.\u201d in court documents, filed a notice to voluntarily end the proposed class action. Both documents have been sealed.<\/p>\n<p>M.A.&#8217;s lawyers, including the ACLU, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/AvGuthrieetalDocketNo225cv00765MDFlaAug222025CourtDocket?doc_id=X2E3ARDG3579KL9DUTBNM2STISL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alleged<\/a> that Florida detention and law enforcement officials violated state laws &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A detainee at the Florida immigration detention center known as \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d dropped his lawsuit against state officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58744,4247,28,30,29,52356],"class_list":["post-116403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-class-actions","tag-deportation","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-notice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}