Bill would create real-time alert system for schools during threats

Florida lawmakers are considering a proposal that would require real-time alerts to schools, child-care centers and nearby residents when law enforcement identifies an “imminent threat,” a measure its sponsors say could save lives. The bill, known as the Yaya Act, is named in 9-year-old T’Yonna Major who was killed in February 2023 when a murder suspect returned to a Pine Hills home hours after allegedly killing a woman nearby.