January 2, 2025
Murders, manslaughters and justifiable homicides fell by more than half last year, records show.…
November 4, 2024
Officers acted properly at Georgia-Florida game, sheriff says
The officers were captured on video punching unruly fans. Sheriff T.K. Waters said the use of force was justified.…
October 11, 2024
Jacksonville group raises concerns about fatal police shooting
The Jacksonville Community Action Committee is demanding that police immediately release bodycam footage of the shooting.…
April 8, 2024
Jacksonville police officers disciplined for strip search
An internal investigation concluded that two officers violated policy when they pulled down a man’s pants on a public road…
September 29, 2023
Kent Stermon coerced young woman, investigation shows
Prominent Republican donor Kent Stermon used Taylor Swift tickets to force a young woman to expose herself, an investigation shows.…
June 14, 2023
OPINION | Invest in safety, not police
We cannot police ourselves out of crime. The JSO budget has been at or above half-a-billion dollars for years, and…
March 5, 2023
Unlike GOP donor Kent Stermon, most of JSO’s ‘Sheriff’s Circle’ barely used special access
All used the special badge access far less frequently than Kent Stermon — the influential Republican donor who died last…
January 19, 2023
Republican donor Kent Stermon had JSO access for nearly a decade as part of “the sheriff’s circle”
Kent Stermon, the donor who was under investigation when he died, was issued 5 separate badges giving him JSO access,…
December 14, 2022
JSO blames software issue for missing Kent Stermon access logs
Influential Republican donor Kent Stermon, who died last week, used a personal badge to access Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office buildings more…