Court Search Exercise and Crime Statistics Exercise

Do not complete until you watch this week's lecture. It shows you how to use the website needed below. Florida Sen. Matt Gaetz has been in the news a lot over the last couple of years - from the coronavirus to gun control and even weighing in on the President's impeachment. Gaetz is from Okaloosa County, Florida, and has had some hiccups in his record, which get brought up in Twitter wars with him often. The Twitter wars often allege Gaetz had multiple DUIs that his father had dismissed. For this assignment, you'll do research to see if that's true! For this assignment, please go to the Okaloosa County Clerk of Courts site (Links to an external site.) and search for Matthew Gaetz (last name, first name). Remember, there could be more than one person with that name, so be sure to check for a middle name/middle initial and compare date of births. What records did you find? Be sure to list the dates of any charges and dates of outcomes, if given. What would you respond to the allegation that Gaetz had multiple DUIs, which were all dismissed?