American geographer, data scientist, activist, and whistleblower Rebekah Jones oversaw the group that used ArcGIS to develop Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard.
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She was let go from her position in May 2020 as a result of her refusal to alter COVID-19 data. She was given whistleblower protections in May 2021 while the state looked into her claims.
Her allegations against the Department of Health were deemed to be baseless or unsupported in May 2022 by Florida’s Office of Inspector General, clearing the state health officials.
She admitted guilt to using the state’s emergency alert system without authorization on November 10, 2020, which led to a police search of her home in December 2022.
Rebekah Jones Fired
The claims that she lost her job because she objected to the manipulation of coronavirus data were found “unsubstantiated” in May 2020.
Jones openly accused the Florida health department of directing her to modify data to reduce the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic in the state; yet, later on, Jones was charged with unauthorized access to official computers.
Rebekah Jones Age
Rebekah Jones is 33-34 years.
Rebekah Jones Height
Rebekah Jones stands 5’8″ tall.
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Rebekah Jones Family
Jacob Romer, Rebekah Jones’ husband, and the couple have two kids: a daughter who was born in the middle of 2018 and a son who is 13 years old.
There have been recent allegations of an incident involving a 13-year-old who was accused of making threats and forcing armed police to search the home of the family.
In addition, Rebekah Jones asserted that her family was not safe, perhaps as a result of her prior disagreements with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over COVID-19 data.
Rebekah Jones Education
Jones earned dual degrees in geography and journalism from Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 2012.
Rebekah Jones earned a master’s degree in geography and a minor in mass communication from Louisiana State University in 2014. In the same year, she received recognition from the Association of American Geographers.
Her research, titled “Quantifying Extreme Weather Event Impacts on the Northern Gulf Coast Using Landsat Imagery,” was published in 2015 in the Journal of Coastal Research.
From 2016 to 2018, Jones studied at Florida State University’s Department of Geography as a graduate student.
Rebekah Jones’ Twitter and Instagram
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