Lights out: DeSantis administration clamps down on colored lights at Florida's old Capitol
A year after a colored light kerfuffle at the old Capitol, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is pushing a set of new rules for the Capitol Complex, including giving the governor sole authority to light building exteriors.
Other proposed rules, which were announced in the Florida Administrative Register by the Department of Management Services and provided through a public records request, would:
* Limit or prohibit protests of other demonstrations inside state buildings if they’re deemed a “disturbance.”
* Ban “visual displays, sounds, and other actions that are indecent, including gratuitous violence, gore, and material that arouses prurient interests” on state property.
* Allow “Capitol Po...
