Andrew Bain speaks at a press conference in Tallahassee, Fla., after he was appointed state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit on Aug. 10, 2023. - Weiner, Jeffrey M./Orlando Sentinel/Weiner, Jeffrey M.
In his first morning as state attorney, Andrew Bain made immediate and sweeping changes: He fired two executive staff members, canceled the office’s catch-and-release policy and discontinued the office’s diversion programs while he “evaluate[s] their effectiveness.” The actions by Bain, a member of the conservative Federalist Society who Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed to the Orange County judicial bench in 2020, represent a sharp departure from Monique Worrell, the elected state attorney for Orange and Osceola Counties who DeSantis ousted from office Wednesday. Bain’s actions also caused concern ...
