Jesse SchecknerSeptember 14, 2022
7min0
‘When I won in 2018, I won by 57,000 votes.’ (He won by 10,033.)
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Jesse SchecknerSeptember 14, 2022
Renzo DowneyMay 2, 2022
6min0
Outgoing Commissioner Rick Swearingen left FDLE Sunday after 38 year at the agency.
Scott PowersNovember 29, 2021
3min2912
'Twenty-five percent is a pretty huge amount,' said FHP Chief Mark Brown.
Joe HendersonJune 12, 2016
6min302
(Editor’s note: We bring this column to highlight an important viewpoint on Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando.) The sermon Sunday morning in my house of worship was about love. In light of current events that seems odd, doesn’t it? We woke to the news that a gunman with apparent ties to radical Islam murdered at […]
Larry GriffinJune 12, 2016
3min164
Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in Orange County after the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub Sunday morning, which has so far claimed 50 lives and is the deadliest shooting in U.S. history. In an executive order issued Sunday, Scott declared Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Richard Swearingen would be […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 16, 2015
4min213
Days after the members of the Florida Cabinet — Attorney General Pam Bondi, CFO Jeff Atwater, and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam — voted to appoint longtime Florida Department of Law Enforcement veteran Richard Swearingen to replace Gerald Bailey as commissioner, questions remain about why Gov. Rick Scott forced Bailey to resign last month. The controversy […]
Associated PressJanuary 13, 2015
1min163
Florida’s main law enforcement agency is getting a new leader, but questions remain about why Gov. Rick Scott abruptly shook up the agency. Scott and the Florida Cabinet voted on Tuesday to appoint Richard Swearingen as the new commissioner for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Swearingen is a longtime veteran of the agency. Former […]
Associated PressJanuary 13, 20151min179
Florida’s main law enforcement agency is getting a new leader, but questions remain about why Gov. Rick Scott abruptly shook up the agency. Scott and the Florida Cabinet voted on Tuesday to appoint Richard Swearingen as the new commissioner for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Swearingen is a longtime veteran of the agency. Former […]