ID theft bill moving through Fla. legislature
As I’ve been reporting for a while now, Florida is an absolute hotbed of ID theft for tax refund fraud schemes. Yet state-level prosecutors are hampered by a law that requires them to prove intent to use/misuse information if someone is found in possession of others’ identity information. Of course, the federal prosecutors are not similarly hamstrung, but there’s a move afoot to fix Florida’s laws. See this news report on News4Jax.com