DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and several other Florida sheriffs on Thursday will discuss the fentanyl disaster and different points at a roundtable in Daytona Beach.
The occasion, a part of Scott’s statewide “Make Washington Work Tour,” is scheduled to start at 9:15 a.m. on the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office coaching heart.
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Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood, Seminole Sheriff Dennis Lemma, Flagler Sheriff Rick Staly and Karen Chrapek and Maureen France, each of the Volusia Recovery Alliance, will be part of Scott on the occasion.
In December, Scott filed the End Fentanyl Act, which might require the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to replace the company’s insurance policies not less than as soon as each three years to make sure operational discipline manuals, together with their drug interdiction steerage, is updated. A 2019 Government Accountability Office report discovered that drug interdiction steerage has not been up to date in 20 years.
“For too long, the crushing heartbreak felt from losing a loved one to a drug overdose, and the opioids that cause them, have plagued American families,” Scott stated final 12 months in an announcement. “This epidemic, fueled by the massive amounts of fentanyl flowing illegally over our southern border into our communities, has only grown worse. Every life taken by an accidental drug poisoning is a preventable tragedy and we must do everything in our power to stop them.”
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