# Florida police raid home of former state Covid-19 data scientist **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 8, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-police-raid-home-of-former-state-covid-19-data-scientist/927543 "2020-12-08T05:07:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-police-raid-home-of-former-state-covid-19-data-scientist/927543/10 "2020-12-10T02:09:34Z")
That appears to be the opinion of one of the lawyers appointed by the Governor: > [@Florida agents raid home of fired public health agent who refused to manipulate COVID data](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-agents-raid-home-of-fired-public-health-agent-who-refused-to-manipulate-covid-data/927523/60): > > [GOP lawyer appointed by Florida governor resigns in protest over raid on ousted data scientist’s home](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/09/florida-republican-resigns-raid/). Paywalled, but here’s the first three paragraphs. A Republican lawyer resigned Tuesday from a Florida judicial panel in objection to [police raiding the home](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/07/rebekah-jones-covid-19-dashboard-florida-desantis/?itid=lk_inline_manual_138&itid=lk_inline_manual_2) of a data scientist. That scientist was previously ousted from the state health department in what she has characterized as retribution for objecting to unethical requests during the pandemic. Ron Filipkowski, who served on a nominating… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-police-raid-home-of-former-state-covid-19-data-scientist/927543)._