Staff ReportsMay 22, 2024
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A plan by the Donna Deegan administration to implement state legislation requiring counties to ban public sleeping or camping by unhoused people is forthcoming.
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Is the Stadium of the Future a good deal?
Staff ReportsMay 8, 2024
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A coalition seeks to boost Jacksonville's sports tourism.
Staff ReportsMay 1, 2024
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The start of Florida's six-week abortion ban is causing agita throughout the state.
A.G. GancarskiApril 26, 2024
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No changes are coming for Northeast Florida's lead lawyers.
A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017
10min307
The Thursday morning agenda for the Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee’s budget review was filled with an assortment of departments. The Public Defender and the State Attorney. The Tax Collector. The Supervisor of Elections. All of these and a couple more besides. Of the greatest interest: the PD and the SAO, both of those offices […]
A.G. GancarskiMay 8, 2017
2min409
In the wake of a springtime clash between anti-Trump protesters and Jacksonville police officers, a very public clash soon ensued on Facebook between Jacksonville Ethics Commission nominee Leslie Jean-Bart and Fraternal Order of Police head Steve Zona. That clash — which involved, among other things, Jean-Bart defending protesters using the inflammatory phrase “f— the police” by posting […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 15, 2016
5min656
On Thursday, Patrol and Enforcement Director Michelle Cook of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, presented a “good news/bad news” scenario. As she told the Jacksonville Journey Oversight Committee, the good news is that the JSO “violence reduction strategy” is working in some of the city’s more crime-plagued areas. The bad news: violent crime is spiking elsewhere in […]
A.G. GancarskiNovember 18, 2016
2min233
Did 4th Circuit Public Defender Matt Shirk have a #FridayFeeling? He allowed his Jacksonville employees to leave early on Friday afternoon. Informed sources confirm people were allowed to leave at 2:45 p.m. Those same sources contend that wasn’t an coincidental time to have been chosen. PD-elect Charles Cofer was set to arrive at the PD’s office at 3 […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 30, 2016
5min307
Duval, Clay, and Nassau Counties will see a new state attorney and a new public defender in January, as two polarizing incumbents were swept out of office, with resounding defeats in contentious primaries. In the most expensive GOP primary race for state attorney ever in this region, challenger Melissa Nelson — with a war chest of […]