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At the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis, the Florida Highway Patrol is assisting the Florida Department of Transportation and the Florida Department of Health (DOH) with checkpoints for motorists entering Florida on I-10 and I-95. The checkpoints were set up in late March as part of an effort to get travelers from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Louisiana to self-isolate upon arriving in Florida. New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Louisiana were targeted because they were hotspots for the virus. Motorists traveling from Alabama into Florida on Interstate 10 will no longer face being stopped for COVID-19 checks. The Florida Department of Transportation announced Friday that a checkpoint east of the Florida-Alabama border is being deactivated as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis starting the second phase of a COVID-19 economic recovery plan.  FHP works an Interstate 95 checkpoint set up at the Florida-Georgia border to screen for travelers coming from COVID-19 hot spots. (News4Jax) A similar checkpoint on Interstate 95 north of Jacksonville remains in place.
At the checkpoints, motorists from the four states have been required to complete forms that include contact information and trip details. The state has collected nearly 28,000 traveler forms at the I-10 checkpoint, the Department of Transportation said Friday. More than 31,300 forms had been collected at the I-95 checkpoint as of Friday morning. Cards have also been handed out with information about what people should do if they exhibit fever, cough, or shortness-of-breath symptoms attributed to COVID-19 while in isolation. To assist the public, the Florida Department of Health has a COVID-19 Call Center to address questions regarding vehicle checkpoints. Please call 1-866-779-6121 or email your questions to [email protected]
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A test website for the Single Portal Initiative — a central electronic system that would allow charities to register in multiple states — went online Monday, announced state charity officials at a conference.
The new effort allows nonprofit officials to test the site and enroll their organizations to solicit donations in Connecticut and Georgia. Charities should be able to register with more states by mid-February 2019 during a second testing phase, said Chad Canfield, operations manager for the charitable-trust section of the Office of the Attorney General of Michigan. As more states join and charities provide their feedback, the site will be improved, he said. "What you see today or what you see tomorrow when you go back and look isn’t what the project is going to look like in six months or a year from now," Canfield said. The idea for the Single Portal Initiative has been in the works for many years, Canfield noted. The goal of the project is to provide a central online registration system for charities and professional fundraisers to fill out for their annual registrations in multiple states. The system would save charities time and money, officials say, because nonprofits would only have to enter in certain data and submit key documents — such as an informational tax form 990 — once. For many charities, the system would replace the bureaucratic labyrinth of completing applications — and often submitting the same documents — for multiple states. The test website launched Monday allows only charities to register, not third-party fundraisers — a feature the project’s developers expect to add. Other features they hope will come later include an analytics tool that will help charity regulators detect fraud and negligence, said Joshua Goldstein, vice president for product at CityBase, which is part of the development team on the site for state officials. State officials also want charity data to be automatically entered from the Forms 990 that organizations file with the Internal Revenue Service, he said. Currently, the test site has separate fields to enter some of the same data for registration in both Connecticut and Georgia, Goldstein noted — though the goal is for charities to enter each piece of information only once to register with many states. The bigger aim, he said, is for the registration process to become much faster. "If you’re a charity and you decide to register in a state, you should be able to complete that registration same day, if not same hour," he said, "and that’s our ambition." Michael Towner |
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