A fabricated phone call denigrating a judge using AI-generated voices is at the center of an ethics complaint against a Broward County, Fla. jurist.
The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission filed a complaint Friday seeking sanctions against County Judge Lauren N. Peffer for attempting to leverage a phony tell-all book and investigation from a disgruntled former court staffer in her 2024 campaign for the bench.
In interviews with local media seeking an endorsement in her campaign, Peffer pointed to the book as an example of an “image crisis” in the state court system. When pressed about using this questionable source, Peffer …
