It has been almost three years since an IG report concluded that Rebekah Jones' allegations about a Florida COVID website lacked sufficient evidence to support them. Here's how NBC News reported the outcome back in May 2022:

The 27-page report from the Florida Department of Health’s Office of Inspector General said it found “insufficient evidence” to support Rebekah Jones’ accusations that she was asked to falsify Covid positivity rates or misrepresent them on the state’s dashboard she helped design. The report also “exonerated” officials accused by Jones of wrongdoing because they removed a data section from the website to ensure that private individual health information was not released publicly.

The independent report paints a portrait of an employee who did not understand public health policy or the significance of epidemiological data, did not have high-level access to crucial information and leveled claims that made professional health officials “skeptical.”

Later the same year, in December, Jones also pleaded guilty to a state computer crime:

Rebekah Jones signed a plea deal last week admitting guilt and agreeing to pay $20,000 in a pending criminal case in which she was charged with accessing a state computer system without authorization...

Prosecutors alleged that Jones accessed a state computer system without authorization and sent a mass text calling on state employees to speak out against Florida's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite these outcomes, Jones has continued to present herself as a whistleblower based on an earlier decision made by the same IG in 2021.

In 2023, she filed a lawsuit demanding to be reinstated in her old job with backpay and punitive damages.

Jones filed a whistleblower lawsuit Monday in Leon County Circuit Court against the state Health Department and Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo asking for her job back along with back pay. She also seeks compensation for “emotional distress” and punitive damages against former department deputy secretary Shamarial Roberson, who is also named as a defendant.

The suit accuses Roberson of violating Jones’ First Amendment rights and illegally firing her for trying to file a whistleblower complaint in April 2020, when she says Roberson ordered her to lie about COVID-19 data.

It took a really long time but yesterday a judge tossed her lawsuit and indicated Jones was never qualified to be a whistleblower under Florida law.

Judge Angela C. Dempsey of the 2nd Judicial Circuit granted a motion for summary judgment this week to the Department of Health (DOH) and Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. She ruled that former DOH Deputy Secretary Shamariel Roberson, also a named defendant in a suit filed by Jones, did not violate Jones’ First Amendment rights by firing her in May 2020.

In a 20-page order, Dempsey dismissed all claims against the Department, Ladapo and Roberson. She concluded Jones did not qualify for whistleblower protections because she participated in publishing COVID data she later said was misleading and “therefore ‘committed or intentionally participated in committing the violation or suspected violation for which protections (under the Federal Whistleblower Act were) sought.’”...

“The evidence unequivocally demonstrates the Plaintiff’s termination was based on documented insubordination, including unauthorized communications with external entities that violated Department policies, and unauthorized disclosures that disrupted the Department’s ability to maintain data integrity and public trust during a public health crisis.”

There was a time when Rebekah Jones was treated like a member in good standing of the resistance and the left's favorite Ron DeSantis critic. I think most people who elevated her are embarrassed about it now, as they should be.

And yet, documentary filmmaker Josh Fox (maker of Gasland) has made a film about her titled Rebekah Jones Whistleblower. I don't think it has been released yet so maybe there's time for title change. If it does get released, we'll probably get a whole new round of false claims about her various claims over the years.

Finally, you may have heard that Jones has other serious problems. Two years ago her son was arrested for making threats against his school.

The 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, who claimed she was fired for refusing to manipulate state Covid-19 data while working in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state Health Department, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening a shooting at a middle school.

The boy, whom CNN is not naming because he is a minor, was charged with written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a second-degree felony, according to a warrant issued by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.

He was eventually given probation which won't expire until he is 19-years-old.