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Having someone disruptive cannot be tolerated during this public pandemic, which led the Department to determine that it was best to terminate her employment.Helen Aguirre Ferre, Communications Director for DeSantis, Jones said she designed the dashboard while they were short-staffed, working with GIS mapping software and coding much of it herself. In an email to subscribers, she said that management of the dashboard was changed for “reasons beyond my division’s control,” She wrote in her email to subscribers: “As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months. Join Facebook to connect with Becky Jones and others you may know.
Dozens of media outlets, both in Florida and nationally, published the sensational story of Dr. Rebekah Jones, a state Department of Health employee who was fired by the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump ally, after – she says – she refused to manipulate data to support the governor’s plan to reopen the state.But a deeper look at the underlying facts expose a less sensational, yet all-too-common narrative: a media feeding frenzy caused by a deep-seated desire to report on scandal and cover-ups, which Rebekah Jones’ claims delivered – if only they were true.Let’s pick through the individual pieces of wreckage from this crashed-and-burned narrative one by one:The truth: Jones has a doctorate degree in geography. I would advise being diligent in your respective uses of this data.”Jones said she was offered a settlement and a chance to resign instead of being fired, In an email to her supervisor on a Saturday, the day after she wrote the COVID-19 subscribers list, Jones said that some of her comments had been misinterpreted, In an email she sent to the IT Director, which the Sun-Sentinel obtained, she wrote: “What I meant when I said don’t expect the same level of accessibility is that they are busy and can’t answer every single email they get right away, and that it was ridiculous that I managed to do it in the first place, and that I was tired and needed a break from working two months straight and am finally taking a vacation. Well you're in luck, because here they come. Above all, I like to think discovering geography was like finding religion for me. 380 Followers, 671 Following, 12 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Rebecca Jones ☆ (@_rebecca_jones) Join Facebook to connect with Rebecca Jones and others you may know. 18K likes. Rebecca served as the Vice Mayor from 2012-2018. Ron DeSantis disputed the allegations from Jones in a press conference.DeSantis said: “She’s not a data scientist. That’s it.
She was hired as a GIS analyst, Syracuse University reported. Hi, I am a Rebecca. Now it’s gone and there’s a lot of uncertainty about what insurance will pay for, if they pay for much at all. They couldn’t even afford to buy their house until just a few years ago.
My parents live in the path of one such tornado. I have a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment. The email noted: “We need to ensure that dates (date fields) in all objects match their counterpart on the PDF line list published.” The PDF did not have the list of when symptoms were first reported.Jones said it was the wrong call, but complied. The blatant disrespect for the professionals who were working around the clock to provide the important information for the COVID-19 website was harmful to the team.Accuracy and transparency are always indispensable, especially during an unprecedented public health emergency such as COVID-19. She has experience in litigation, real estate, and corporate law, but has found the work she does in the Trusts and Estates Department of Ward and Smith to be the most fulfilling because it allows her to work more closely with clients. Her skill set, as applicable to COVID-19, was in mapping data, as we explained above. That, too is totally false.
DeSantis, asked again about the firing of Rebekah Jones, says she was putting data on the portal that scientists didn't believe was valid.Florida Gov. She graduated cum Claude and was a geospatial specialist for the Lousiana Sea Grant for a time.Then on April 12, her parents’ home was destroyed by a tornado in Mississippi, On April 12, a series of tornadoes destroyed hundreds of homes across the US Southeast.
If media outlets insist on describing her as a “scientist,” they owe their readers a fuller explanation of her role, and should, at most, describe her as a “data scientist,” though even that could be misleading and would still be misconstrued for political gain.The truth: Jones was asked to temporarily disable the ability to export data from the dashboard so that it could be verified that the data matched other sources.If you’re struggling to see what all the fuss is about, you’re not alone.
www.instagram.com; Rebecca is an English illustrator living in Melbourne, Australia. Her fascination with science, new technologies and digital-physical interactions are often the source of her experimentation into new mediums. The website has been taken down, but images from the case exist in Leon County court records.Most of the charges filed against her came after she was hired by the Department of Health, so they would not have turned up in any background check.The media outlets listed above will not issue retractions. I believe I can be one of those effective leaders and feel a duty to do so.”Jones said she studied journalism to give a “voice to the voiceless,” and for a time was a features editor and writer for the university’s paper, The Daily Orange.