{"id":326353,"date":"2026-07-01T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326353\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:35:08","slug":"desantis-announces-floridas-first-terrorist-organization-designations-under-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326353\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis announces Florida’s first terrorist organization designations under new law"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> announced Wednesday that Florida <\/a>will begin using a new state law aimed at targeting terrorist organizations, including groups the state says threaten the safety and security of Floridians.<\/p>\n

The move marks the first use of powers granted under HB 1471,<\/a> legislation DeSantis signed earlier this yea<\/a>r creating a formal process for Florida to designate terrorist organizations and restrict public support for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast December, I signed an Executive Order to eliminate the influence of radical terrorist ideologies and the organizations that promote them in Florida. This year, I signed legislation to strengthen those protections and give Florida permanent statutory tools to combat terrorism while defending the Constitutional rights of our citizens,\u201d said Governor DeSantis. <\/p>\n

Today, we are officially designating terrorist organizations under Florida law. In addition to CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, we are adding Antifa to the list\u2014along with more than 90 Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including cartels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The governor’s office said Florida intends to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Brotherhood and Antifa under state law. Officials have also recommended designating more than 90 foreign terrorist organizations, including:<\/p>\n

Sinaloa CartelTren de Araguathe Islamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsCartel del Noreste and Cartel del Golfo<\/p>\n

The new law gives the Florida Department of Law Enforcement<\/a> a formal process to identify and recommend terrorist organizations for designation. Once approved by the governor and Cabinet, those designations would carry the force of state law.<\/p>\n

“Keeping our community safe starts with identifying the threat,” said Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass. “The safety of our community is strengthened by that knowledge every day, and reinforced by the collaboration between our officers, our federal partners, and\u2014most importantly\u2014the people we serve.”<\/p>\n

According to the governor’s office, the law prohibits state and local governments from providing taxpayer funding, contracts or other public support to designated terrorist organizations. Public colleges, universities, school districts and other taxpayer-funded institutions would also be prohibited from using public resources to support or promote those groups.<\/p>\n

The legislation also creates criminal penalties for individuals who knowingly provide material support or resources to designated terrorist organizations and establishes state-level enforcement tools intended to combat terrorism while protecting constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

The proposed designations must still be confirmed by the Florida Cabinet before taking effect. If approved, designated organizations could face dissolution under state law, while individuals found to be providing material support could face criminal penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that Florida will begin using a new state law…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-326353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326353","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=326353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}