Rebekah Jones has a Doctorate in Geography, and as I said above, she specializes in GIS. She has no medical background of any kind.
She also has quite a checkered past -- not only with Florida state government, but also at her previous employer LSU. For example, this excerpt from Tallahassee Reports:
"Jones is no stranger to insubordination. In 2016, she was arrested on the campus of her employer, Louisiana State University, for refusing to obey the orders of a police officer:
It’s not clear why LSU’s Human Resources department asked one of their own staff members to leave the area.
Jones also has an extensive criminal history in Leon County, where she’s been arrested and charged with three felonies, including one for robbery, and a handful of misdemeanor cases including “sexual cyberstalking,” a case where she created a website and used it to sexually harass her ex-boyfriend. The website has been taken down, but images from the case exist in Leon County court records.
Most of the charges filed against her came after she was hired by the Department of Health, so they would not have turned up in any background check."
Just FYI, Leon County, FL is Tallahassee, the state capital.
Here's the link so you can read the entire article. The other media source quoted extensively is the Tampa Bay Times, which is a very good (and decidedly liberal) newspaper (formerly the St. Petersburg Times).
https://tallahasseereports.com/2020...ickbait-the-media-dreams-of-but-its-all-fake/
One note about something else in this article.
There is a reference in one of the comments to the story about Ms. Jones being "Baker-acted." Florida's Baker Act is a method of
involuntarily committing a person to a mental health facility for evaluation. To meet the criteria of the act, the person must be a danger to themselves or others -- just having mental health issues does not qualify.
There is no further information on that comment, and I have not seen that issue raised anywhere else, so I have no idea whether it is true or not.