Four school board members were suspended by the governor after a grand jury investigated the mass shooting at a high school.
The grand jury's recommendations led to the suspension of five people from the school board.
Fourteen children and three teachers were killed at the school.
The board should be suspended because of the misuse of authority related to the shooting, incompetence, and neglect of duty, according to the members of the grand jury.
The jury's report found that four years after the shooting a safety-related alarm that might have saved lives at the school was and is such a low priority that it remains uninstall at multiple schools.
When there is evidence of incompetence, neglect of duty, misfeasance or malfeasance, it's my duty to suspend people from office.
According to the government's statement, students continue to be educated in unsafe, aging, decrepit, moldy buildings that were supposed to have been renovated a long time ago.
School board members have shown a pattern of emboldening unacceptable behavior, including fraud and mismanagement, across the district.
Four new members were appointed by the governor to replace the ones who were suspended.
The Florida Supreme Court formed a grand jury in response to the shooting at the high school. The jury was asked to look into whether public entities and school officials committed fraud and deceit by mismanaging funds devoted to school safety, and whether school officials violated state law by systematically under reporting criminal activity to the Department of Education.
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