In Fort Lauderdale, stay home, be safe or face arrest

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By SUSANNAH BRYAN
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL |
MAR 27, 2020 | 6:38 PM
| FORT LAUDERDALE
As coronavirus cases ramp up across the nation, Fort Lauderdale has become the latest city to order residents to stay home — and you could be punished if you don’t.

The city’s stay-at-home order, issued Friday, takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Violators could be arrested and jailed for 60 days or fined $500.

Now every single city in Broward is following suit and ordering residents to stay home.

Fort Lauderdale’s emergency order came Friday afternoon, one day after Broward County issued a directive “strongly” urging residents to shelter in place, though the order included no penalty for violators.

That order did not require residents to stay home; it is merely requested that they do so, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said.

“We are invoking the hand of the law to ensure compliance,” Trantalis said of his city’s directive, which ends April 17. “We believe that strongly urging people is not sufficient to carry out these emergency orders.”

(Read More) https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-coronavirus-fort-lauderdale-stay-home-order-20200327-cbihlf6povg4fnmsw6qecwtwci-story.html

[Danascot]

1. Fines? pffft They'll have to shoot 'em

These are Floridians we're talking about here.