{"id":54781,"date":"2025-11-20T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54781\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:45:09","slug":"ashley-moody-proposes-federal-halo-measure-based-on-florida-law-to-protect-federal-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54781\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Moody proposes federal ‘halo’ measure based on Florida law to protect federal officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody is proposing a measure aimed at protecting federal law enforcement and government officers from harassment.<\/p>\n

The bill is inspired by a similar protection action for law enforcement in Florida.<\/p>\n

Moody announced<\/a> that she\u2019s introducing the \u201cHalo Act<\/a>\u201d to protect federal officers when they\u2019re executing official actions. The measure, partially rooted in immigration enforcement, would establish criminal penalties for obstructing immigration actions and bystanders would have to keep a 25-foot buffer between themselves and federal officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the wife of a law enforcement officer, former (Florida) Attorney General, and now United States Senator, I have always supported and fought for the selfless individuals who protect and serve our nation,\u201d Moody said in a news release Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am appalled at the news reports of people harassing and targeting federal officers while they are simply trying to do their jobs, and this must end. I\u2019m introducing the Halo Act to enact criminal penalties for those that threaten or impede these federal officers while they are faithfully executing their duties.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Moody\u2019s federal proposal mirrors a law that was established in Florida last year. Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis\u00a0signed legislation (SB 184<\/a>) in April 2024 enabling police, firefighters and paramedics to establish a 25-foot no-go zone around themselves, establishing a \u201chalo\u201d around their operation. Anyone who enters the area to harass, impede or threaten them after receiving a warning will face up to 60 days in prison and a $500 fine.<\/p>\n

SB 184 was the pet project<\/a> of Hialeah Republican state Rep. Alex Rizo, who sponsored versions of the measure with varying distances \u2014 up to 30 feet in some \u2014 for several Legislative Sessions.<\/p>\n

Rizo dubbed his measure the \u201cHalo bill.\u201d By authorizing it, he said, \u201cthe Governor and Legislature are letting every law enforcement officer and first responder in the state know that we not only stand with them, but will continue to do whatever we must to protect and serve them, as they protect and serve us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moody\u2019s federal proposal would also use the 25-foot measure as a standard for bystanders to stay clear of an officer. It\u2019s aimed at anyone who knowingly wants to \u201cget in the way or interfere with the officer\u2019s work, threaten the officer with physical harm or harasses the officer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moody\u2019s measure calls for a fine and up to five years in prison for violators, or both.<\/p>\n

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Jesse Scheckner of Florida Politics contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody is proposing a measure aimed at protecting federal law enforcement and government officers from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34178,3853,8232,34179,28,30,29,34180,12897,12831,34181,412,34182],"class_list":{"0":"post-54781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-alex-rizo","9":"tag-ashley-moody","10":"tag-attorney-general","11":"tag-bystanders","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-halo-act","16":"tag-harassment","17":"tag-immigration-enforcement","18":"tag-legislative","19":"tag-ron-desantis","20":"tag-sb-184"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54781","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=54781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}