Federal Appeals Court Ridicules Florida Cops For Using SWAT Team To Check On Barbershop Licenses

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57. True -Professional Regulation was gutted but back in the Jeb Bush days

Some of the licensing and services done through the bureau were paid completely by fees so it didn't actually cost the state to provide the services and enforce the regulations. But Scott's people cut everything down to the bone, sometimes to the point that legally required enforcement was no longer possible with the people in DBPR.

And here's the thing - those fees were and probably still are being collected, even though the legislatively mandated services are no longer available.

Maybe Scott's people did more mutilation to the department, but I got a lot of inside stories from a friend who worked for DBPR when Jeb got into office. She ended up getting a lateral transfer to Unemployment, one department that has not been able to be cut under our run of Republican governors. If I think about it the next time I talk to her, I'll ask about what she's heard since Scott has been in office.