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Council President Ron Salem listens as Jacksonville General Counsel Michael Fackler responds to Salem's questioning about the surprise removal of a Confederate monument in January 2024. | Casmira Harrison, Jacksonville Today
February 16, 2025

OPINION | The Jacksonville City Council’s lawyer problem

Multiple City Council members wish General Council Michael Fackler would resign. But they aren’t blameless in why he’s there in…

By A.G. Gancarski

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Michael Fackler | Jacksonville Daily Record
January 29, 2025

Council members Salem, Diamond introduce bill expressing lack of faith in city’s lead attorney

Saying that the city of Jacksonville’s top lawyer has shown “an unacceptable preference to address and support the wishes of…

By Ric Anderson - Jacksonville Daily Record

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January 16, 2024

Monument-removal money never flowed through city coffers, Jax top lawyer says

The city’s chief lawyer came under fire again Tuesday from City Council members as he sought to explain his department’s…

By Casmira Harrison

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Michael Fackler has been appointed as Jacksonville's general counsel. | Milam Howard Nicandri & Gillam P.A
September 22, 2023

Support appears strong for Jacksonville’s new top lawyer

Michael Fackler seems to have sufficient support on City Council to become Jacksonville’s next general counsel.…

By Dan Scanlan

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