July 14, 2025
Mayor Donna Deegan’s 2025-26 city budget increases spending on police and fire and maintains the current tax rate.…
April 16, 2025
#AskJAXTDY | Why doesn’t Jacksonville use AI on sheriff’s budget?
A Jacksonville Today reader thinks the city’s test of artificial intelligence should include the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office budget.…
March 18, 2025
Immigration bill sails through committees toward Jax Council vote
Legislation to provide police more mobile fingerprint scanners and institute local penalties for undocumented immigrants is headed to the full…
March 14, 2025
Jax Council to debate immigration enforcement and compliance
Two Jacksonville lawmakers are pushing for city-lead restrictions and enforcement on undocumented immigrants, with one of two immigration bills up…
March 11, 2025
JSO lieutenant fires at truck after ‘contact’ on I-95
The investigation continues into what led up to a Jacksonville police lieutenant firing multiple shots into a truck after reported…
February 25, 2025
City Council OKs Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office move to Brooklyn
JSO will move from the nearly 48-year-old Police Memorial Building Downtown to the Florida Blue tower. …
October 18, 2024
Sheriff is latest target of racist banners over Downtown
A single-engine plane flew over Downtown on Thursday with a banner directed at Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters.…
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.…
October 10, 2024
Man killed in officer-involved shooting in Arlington Manor area
A man was killed in an officer-involved shooting Thursday evening in the Arlington Manor area, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s…
September 13, 2024
Veteran Jacksonville police officer charged with kidnapping, stalking woman
A veteran Jacksonville police officer remains jailed on $1.25 million bail in Nassau County after his arrest.…
April 23, 2024
Jacksonville cop accused of crashing cruiser and fleeing
Officer John Burr was charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving injuries. He has resigned from the Jacksonville…
February 7, 2024
Sheriff’s officer accused of giving information to criminals
Christopher Barr is accused of sharing information from police databases with people that Sheriff T.K. Waters described as criminals.…
July 18, 2023
OPINION | The Downtown jail fallacy
It’s possible to create a much more active and vibrant Downtown Jacksonville even without moving the jail.…
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…
May 1, 2023
OPINION | Romanticizing law enforcement is a no-win game
For all of their differences, Donna Deegan and Daniel Davis are on the same page when it comes to giving…
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 29, 2023
OPINION | Is Daniel Davis opening Pandora’s Box?
Republican Daniel Davis issued the most audacious proposal of the campaign mayor campaign: pension reform.…
September 14, 2022
OPINION | Jax’s next sheriff should build bridge with City Hall
It’s September in Jacksonville, which brings some potential relief from brutal summer heat, a heightened focus on tropical weather activity,…
June 15, 2022
More than a third of Jacksonville Sheriff’s officers don’t live in Duval County
Jacksonville’s recently resigned sheriff, Mike Williams, isn’t the only one who was policing the county while living somewhere else. Data…