Grand jury urges removal of school board quartet over Parkland shooting

Panel says members displayed deceit and incompetence over handling of safety program but report condemned as hatchet job'

A Florida grand jury empaneled after a 2018 school massacre has recommended that the state's governor, Ron DeSantis, remove four members of the Broward county school board from office, saying they and district administrators displayed deceit, malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty and incompetence" in their handling of a campus safety program.

In the 122-page report released Friday, the panel recommended that DeSantis suspend board members Patricia Good, Donna Korn, Ann Murray and Laurie Rich Levinson. A former member, Rosalind Osgood, also was targeted, but she has since been elected to the Florida Senate and taken office.