DeSantis announced plans to convert a shuttered North Florida prison into an immigration detention center, replacing a ...

A new $39,000 state contract for a weather monitoring system and two lightning sirens was posted to a state website this week ...

DeSantis considered opening a second immigration detention facility at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard training site ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Baker County on Thursday morning. He will be speaking at the ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the empty prison will be the new home of the state’s second immigration detention ...

The Florida Department of Emergency management purchased weather monitoring equipment for a 'North Detention Facility,' ...

Florida is planning a second immigration detention center at Camp Blanding, but construction depends on increased federal ...

WeatherSTEM is a Florida company, headquartered in Tallahassee. Questions for FDEM are still pending. On Aug. 1, DeSantis said the federal government has deported over 600 people from the South ...

The state will open a second immigration detention, processing and deportation facility at Baker Correctional Institution ...

During the war, Camp Blanding became home to two full infantry divisions and many smaller units. In 1944 and 1945, thousands of soldiers trained here before heading overseas to join combat.

Local ‘We don’t want to do it just to do it’: Camp Blanding ICE facility may take longer than planned By Deja Mayfield, Action News Jax July 07, 2025 at 7:04 pm EDT ...

Camp Blanding is a training site for the Florida National Guard near Starke. It has an air field, which the state plans to use to remove detained immigrants to their countries of origin, and is ...