New security proposals: The state commission investigating the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has a 99-page draft list of sweeping recommendations to improve security at the state's schools. But panel chairman Bob Gualtieri says the immediate focus will be on things that can be done quickly and cheaply without requiring changes to the law, such as guarding open gates and better training teachers for emergencies. “We have to accept that we can’t prevent another one of these,” says Gualtieri. “It is going to happen again. The question is when and where, and the ultimate question is what have we done and implemented as quickly as we can to mitigate the harm?" Sun-Sentinel. Politico Florida. Nine months after the Feb. 14 shootings at Stoneman Douglas, in which 17 people died, few people have faced consequences for their decisions before and during the massacre. Sun-Sentinel.

27 fall ill at school: Twenty-six students and an employee at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale are hospitalized after reporting seizures, shortness of breath, headaches, nosebleeds and fainting Monday. All were treated and released a few hours later. The cause for the outbreak is unknown. “There is no rhyme or reason at this time,” says Stephen Gollan, a spokesman for Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue. “We really don’t know. It’s very, very weird.” Sun-Sentinel. Miami Herald. (more…)