Florida Releases Evacuation Plan for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Florida on Wednesday released its heavily redacted evacuation plan for the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center should a hurricane hit, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

The 33-page “draft” report, titled “South Florida Detention Facility Continuity of Operations Plan,” is heavily blacked out. The state is keeping some details secret by using an exemption in Florida’s public records law that allows “tactical operations in responding to emergencies” to be kept from public disclosure.

Florida Division of Emergency Management head Kevin Guthrie earlier this month said the facility was a “fully aluminum frame structure rated for winds of 110 miles an hour, or a high-end Category 2, for those people that don’t think that we’re taking that into consideration. This is Florida.”

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