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From ICE on campus to the latest on a troubling jail death, we discuss all the week’s headlines with our media roundtable.

On tonight's program: The Florida Senate has unanimously passed a bill that eases the financial strain on condominium owners; The Florida House and Senate are going back and forth on a policy to place more restrictions and protections on the state’s ballot initiative process; Attorneys for one of the men killed April 17th during the shooting at Florida State University are demanding more information about the incident and the suspect; And a bill to ban adding fluoride to public water systems is heading to Governor Ron DeSantis' desk.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke about a proposal to shift tourism tax dollars toward property tax relief with Rolando Aedo of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau (09:00). Then, we checked in with WUSF’s Douglas Soule for highlights from the legislative session that ends this week (15:02). Plus, we heard from Florida college students about their post-graduation career plans (26:36). And later, an update on the Brevard County teacher who was fired for using a student’s preferred name without parental approval (37:20), and we learned about a novel community court program in South Florida (43:28).

On tonight’s program: So Florida lawmakers decided to go home for at least a week. We’ll delve into what happened; More open government exemptions came out of this year’s lawmaking session; We hear from the former Florida Democratic Party rising star who suddenly left the party to blaze his own trail; When it comes to Florida’s medical malpractice laws, some are arguing that old laws aren’t necessarily good laws; Despite big cuts in federal help, Florida’s regional food banks could be making that up – and then some – with extra help from state government; And once again, Florida finds itself on the cutting edge of culture….more and more backyards are foregoing lawns and ornamental flowers for tropical fruit trees.

Thirty years after the hazardous waste processor packed up and vanished, Clay County residents still struggle with the plant’s toxic legacy.

On tonight’s program: With plenty of work still to do on the state budget, lawmakers have decided to leave Tallahassee and take next week off with no announcement as to when they might be back; Governor Ron DeSantis has announced more than one-thousand undocumented immigrants were arrested in Florida over the past month; Florida lawmakers have passed a bill banning commercial development in state parks and sent it to the governor; And more legislation has passed, which would make it easier to convert traditional public schools to charter schools in Florida.

The attorney for a jail inmate injured in custody plans to sue the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

As lawmakers take a one-week break, our political analysts take stock of what’s failed, what’s passed (so far) and what's next.

Pediatric advocates say state and national policies are making Florida kids less safe. Then: Faculty members at Jacksonville University decry recent cutbacks.

On tonight's program: The Florida Legislature was all set to come back to Tallahassee next week and work on the budget. Then everything went “BOOM!”; Some bills affecting the welfare of young people actually made it through this year’s Florida Legislative Session; After a strict security check, we’ll enter into a part of Florida that is not United States territory. It’s also a place where the Trump administration’s international tariffs do NOT apply; Federal cuts to arts funding will hit hundreds of organizations in Florida alone; We’ll take a look at one such entity in South Florida; A proposal in the U.S. Senate could help Florida’s troubled citrus industry; And a famous and much-loved PBS personality talks about how her dance-loving showcame to be.