Parkland is a city in northern Broward County,Florida,United States. It is a suburb of Miami and located 42 miles (68 km) north of the city. As of the 2020 census,the population of Parkland was 34,670. Parkland is part of the Miami metropolitan area,which was home to 6,166,488 people in 2020.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is a public high school in Parkland,Florida,United States. Established in 1990 as part of the Broward County Public Schools district and named after the writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas,it was the only public high school in Parkland,serving almost the entire city as well as a small section of neighboring Coral Springs.
Alfred James Lawson Jr. is an American businessman and politician who was the U.S. representative for Florida's 5th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. The district,which was eliminated following redistricting during the 2022 Florida legislative session,stretched across most of the border with Georgia,including most of the majority-black areas between Tallahassee and Jacksonville. Lawson challenged fellow Congressman Neal Dunn in the newly redrawn 2nd congressional district,which pitted them against each other in Lawson's home city. Lawson won the Democratic primary unopposed,and lost to Dunn in the general election.
Theodore Eliot Deutch is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative from Florida's 22nd congressional district from 2010 to 2022. His district,numbered as the 19th district from 2010 to 2013 and as the 21st from 2013 to 2017,included much of northern Broward County and southern Palm Beach County in South Florida. A member of the Democratic Party,he first entered Congress in 2010 after a special election following the resignation of Robert Wexler.
Cynthia Moore Chestnut is an American Democratic politician who currently serves the Gainesville,Florida City Commission. She previously served on the same City Commission from 1987 to 1989 and as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1990 to 2000,representing the 23rd District. After unsuccessfully running for the Florida Senate in 2000,Chestnut was elected to the Alachua County Commission in 2002,where she served until she lost re-election in 2010.
Jared Evan Moskowitz is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 23rd congressional district since 2023. As a member of the Democratic Party,Moskowitz served on the Broward County Commission from 2021 to 2022 and as director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management from 2019 to 2021. Before his appointment to the Florida Division of Emergency Management,he served in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the Coral Springs-Parkland area in northern Broward County from 2012 to 2019.
Dwight Stansel is a Florida politician of the Democratic Party and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 11.
Dwight Bullard is a Democratic politician and teacher from Florida. He served one term in the Florida State Senate,representing parts of South Florida from 2012 to 2016,and before that served two terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing a district in southern Miami-Dade County from 2008 until his election to the Senate.
George R. Moraitis Jr. is a Republican politician and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 93rd District,which stretches from Boca Raton to Hollywood in eastern Broward County,from 2012 to 2018. Moraitis previously represented the 91st District from 2010 to 2012.
Carlos Guillermo Smith is an American community activist,lobbyist,and Democratic politician. He is a member of the Florida Senate from the 17th district since 2024,covering much of Orange County east of I-4,having been elected without opposition upon the qualifying deadline on June 14th. He previously served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 49,situated in northeastern Orange County from 2016 through 2022,which covered the University of Central Florida area,Alafaya,Goldenrod,Union Park,Rio Pinar,and Waterford Lakes.
X González is an American activist and advocate for gun control. In 2018,they survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting,the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history,and,in response,co-founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD.
Never Again MSD is an American student-led political action committee for gun control that advocates for tighter regulations to prevent gun violence. The organization,also known by the Twitter hashtags #NeverAgain,and #EnoughIsEnough,was formed by a group of twenty students attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) in Parkland,Florida at the time of the deadly shooting in 2018,in which seventeen students and staff members were killed by the gunman,Nikolas Cruz,who was a 19-year-old former student of the school and was armed with an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle. The organization started on social media as a movement "for survivors of the Stoneman Douglas Shooting,by survivors of the Stoneman Douglas Shooting" using the hashtag #NeverAgain. A main goal of the group was to influence that year's United States mid-term elections,and they embarked on a multi-city bus tour to encourage young people to register to vote.
Jaclyn Corin is an American activist against gun violence. She survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. She is one of the co-founders of March for Our Lives and the organizer of a student protest to Tallahassee,Florida. She has also been a vocal critic of politicians funded by the National Rifle Association.
Lauren Elizabeth Hogg is an American author and activist against gun violence. She survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 and after became a co-founder of March for Our Lives and advocates against gun violence. She is the younger sister of gun control activist and former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg. She graduated from MSD High School in 2021,three years after David.
Andrew Scott Pollack is an American author,school safety activist,and entrepreneur whose daughter Meadow was one of the 17 murdered victims in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018.
Ryan Blaine Petty is an American school safety activist. His 14-year-old daughter Alaina Petty was murdered in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14,2018. Petty is credited with helping to pass the "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act" Florida Senate Bill 7026 just three weeks after his daughter Alaina was murdered. At the federal level,Petty worked with Senators Orrin Hatch,Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson to pass the STOP School Violence Act and the Fix NICS Act of 2017. He has met frequently with former Florida governor Rick Scott,and many federal lawmakers.
The Florida Senate Bill 7026 or the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act is a Florida bill to tighten gun control,school security and school safety. The bill bans bump stocks and raises the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21,and enacts red flag laws among other restrictions. It also allows teachers who receive training to be armed. The Florida Senate passed the bill 20–18 in March 2018,three weeks after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. The Florida House of Representatives passed the bill 67–50,with House Republicans voting 57–19 and House Democrats voting 10–31. The bill was signed into law by Governor Rick Scott on March 9,2018.
Stan McClain is an American politician who has served in the Florida Senate since 2024,currently for the 9th district. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016–2024 for the 23th &27th districts.
Robert Charles "Chuck" Brannan III is a Republican member of the Florida Legislature representing the state's 10th House district,which includes Baker,Columbia,Hamilton,and Suwannee counties and part of Alachua County.
Christine Hunschofsky is an American politician from the state of Florida. A Democrat,she has been a member of the Florida House of Representatives since 2020,after serving as the mayor of Parkland from 2017 to 2020.
