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Governor approves Dozier School exhumations

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orlando sendozierTALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday authorized a year-long dig for human remains at a closed Panhandle reform school, saying the state cannot ignore abuse that went on for decades.
Scott and Cabinet members — Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam — approved a land-use agreement with the Department of Environmental Protection that allows University of South Florida researchers to search for reportedly unaccounted-for bodies of boys who died between 1900 and 1952 at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna.
“We’re not exactly sure what happened there, but we know it wasn’t good,” Bondi said. for more go to….
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-florida-graves-dozier-school-boys-20130806,0,3789366.story


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