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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 26, 2017

While Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry was in London with the Jaguars, two members of the City Council were making news, via a Only in Jacksonville scandal one might call “Plategate.” Jacksonville television viewers spent Friday evening watching footage of Jacksonville City Councilmembers Reggie Gaffney and Katrina Brown accusing local cops of racial profiling. Gaffney had been pulled over for driving […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 26, 2017

Jacksonville television viewers spent Friday evening watching footage of Jacksonville City Councilmenbers accusing local cops of racial profiling. On Tuesday evening, those Councilors — Reggie Gaffney, who was pulled over for driving with a tag he’d reported stolen; and Katrina Brown, driving behind Gaffney, who accused the officers of racially-profiling her Council colleague — will be two of 19 […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 25, 2017

Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney wants four more years, and to that end he became the first incumbent to file for re-election last week. Gaffney, a Democrat representing District 7, has had one of the more interesting tenures of anyone on City Council — a two year period fraught with less-than-favorable coverage. Perhaps the most interesting […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 23, 2017

Just days before the Jacksonville City Council is set to approve a budget giving the city 100 new police officers, two Councilors are in the news for an altercation with current cops. As WJXT first reported, Councilman Reggie Gaffney was pulled over Monday night for driving with a tag that he’d reported stolen a year before. Gaffney […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2017

The dispute, at least in theory, was over window tint. However, what one Northeast Florida pastor experienced has brought new attention to old conflicts between Jacksonville police and African-American residents. Rev. Darien Bolden of Fernandina Beach had stopped with his nephew on 19th Street in Jacksonville to look at investment properties. That’s when an officer expressed […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 25, 2017

The Jacksonville City Council voted Tuesday evening to approve Resolution 2017-457, which was intended to commemorate Consolidation. But the vote was not unanimous. A movement for full Council sponsorship of the resolution was spiked by Councilman Reggie Brown, who spoke at length about infrastructural failings and broken promises. Brown noted that JEA, for example, isn’t committed […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 21, 2017

Earlier this summer, we reported on a whistleblower lawsuit brought against the non-profit company of Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney. Former employee Darlene Peoples claimed the company, Community Rehabilitation Center, had “unlawfully terminated” her… after she was allegedly exposed to risk from HIV-positive clients without proper training and licensure. Peoples asserted that she couldn’t find any recourse via human […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 21, 2017

On Tuesday, Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney addressed a whistleblower lawsuit regarding his non-profit. The whistleblower alleged that Gaffney’s Community Rehabilitation Center failed to properly train her when she was re-assigned to deal with HIV-positive people. Then, when she sought recourse, she alleged to have been rebuffed — including by Gaffney, the executive director of the non-profit. […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 20, 2017

Community Rehabilitation Center – the non-profit of Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney best known for its cameo appearances in the Corrine Brown trial and a Medicaid overbilling scandal – is back in the news. The subject this time: a late-May whistleblower lawsuit in Florida’s 4th Circuit, filed by an employee who alleges that she was “unlawfully terminated” […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 18, 2017

Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney was an eagerly-awaited prosecution witness in the trial of Corrine Brown. Despite being on the witness list, Gaffney — a longtime friend and confidant of Brown — was not called to testify in the trial. And FloridaPolitics.com has Gaffney’s exclusive take on why that is. Gaffney’s theory: his narrative was inconsistent with the […]

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