Anne GeggisApril 28, 2023
3min0
The proposed change would put School Board candidate residency requirements in line with most other elected offices.
Tag: residency requirementsHomicide counts between 2020 and 2024 in Miami-Dade (A), and firearm-related homicide counts over the same span for 80 ZIP codes in the (B). ZIP code 33147, which researchers said has had the highest rate of homicides, historically, dropped to the 10th ranking overall in 2024. Image via Scaling Safety.
Anne GeggisApril 28, 2023Anne GeggisApril 19, 2023
5min0
The bill has one more vote to go before awaiting the Governor's signature.
Anne GeggisApril 4, 2023
5min0
Critics called the bill an attack on the local autonomy of School Board.
Anne GeggisMarch 31, 2023
5min0
Democrats: School Board seats should not be opened to political opportunists as this would allow.
Anne GeggisMarch 29, 2023
6min0
Legislation would put School Board candidacy requirements more in line with other elected offices in the state.
Anne GeggisJanuary 18, 2023
5min0
Mayor Keith James sued to have a challenger declared ineligible due to the city's six-month residency requirement for public office.
Anne GeggisDecember 15, 2022
5min0
Keith James says Rodney Mayo can't be Mayor of West Palm Beach — he lives in Lantana. Not so, Mayo says.
Peter SchorschAugust 6, 2020
4min492
Letter cites investigation into Leeper's residency.
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 2, 2018
2min181
2018 began for the Jacksonville City Council with some holdover business from 2017: a proposed lessening of residency distance requirements for sexual predators. The bill has been around since September, and is headed toward the graveyard of dead bills. Councilors spiked it by a 2-5 margin Tuesday in the Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health and […]
Jim RosicaJune 15, 2016
4min408
Former state Rep. Bev Kilmer says she meets the residency requirements needed to again serve in the House. Kilmer, a Republican who was in the Florida House of Representatives 1998-2004, moved back to the Panhandle from Texas to run for House District 5. The mostly rural district includes Holmes, Jackson, Walton and Washington counties and northern Bay […]