Fact-checking Newsom-DeSantis debate: Immigration, abortion, book bans and a poop map

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The FBI's crime reporting database shows that 49 of 757 Florida law enforcement agencies participated in the FBI's data collection in 2021.
54% : NBC News reported Sept. 20 that DeSantis' talking point came from a database with information from law enforcement agencies representing about 57% of Florida's population.
53% : Her claim has been featured by anti-abortion groups and used to support "born alive" bills in state legislatures, which aim to protect infants who survive abortions, even though there are federal laws for that purpose.
52% : By contrast, in 2022, 367 Florida law enforcement agencies sent in data.
46% : Defending the law, DeSantis repeated an anecdote from the first GOP presidential debate about a Floridian named Penny Hopper.
46% : In June 2022, ahead of a planned Special Olympics event in Orlando, the Florida Department of Health told the organization that its vaccine requirement conflicted with state law barring any business from asking for proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
45% : Newsom is right, based on the voting patterns in the 2020 presidential election and 2020 state-by-state homicide rankings, according to an analysis of federal data by Third Way, a center-left policy group.
42% : Prompted by Hannity to say whether the bans were state or local, DeSantis said they were "local."
42% : Whether the law takes effect hinges on how the Florida Supreme Court rules in a lawsuit against the current 15-week ban.
39% : Learning loss varied widely by state, with Hawaii and Alabama experiencing four weeks of loss and Delaware experiencing 32 weeks.
36% : A 2023 poll by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 45% of Californians who considered moving to another state cited housing costs as a factor.

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