New documents show a private for-profit company is gaining revenue from Florida’s gambling hotline.
The Florida Gaming Control Commission, which is the government agency overseeing the contract that provides money for programs to curb gambling addictions, switched the state’s hotline last yearfrom the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling to a new nonprofit called Kindbridge Research Institute. They created a new website and number, 1-833-PLAYWISE, branded with Playwise.
According to the latest publicly available tax filing on the IRS’ website from 2022, Kindbridge Research Institute’s principal officer is Daniel Umfleet.
