Category: Broward Cities
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Horrific police frame-ups that Broward State Attorney Michael Satz won’t investigate
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last week’s manslaughter indictment of Broward deputy Peter Peraza for the 2013 killing of Jermaine McBean marks a watershed in the tenure of Broward State Attorney Michael Satz – the first time in 36 years that his office is prosecuting a police officer in a fatal police shooting. The indictment also serves as a reminder of unresolved injustices at the hands of other Broward police officers. -
Ft. Lauderdale police snooped on investigator helping FBI probe police corruption, suit says
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The chief investigator for the Broward Public Defender’s Office sued Fort Lauderdale last week alleging that a city policeman impermissibly obtained his driver’s license records while he was helping the FBI investigate police corruption in the city. -
Fort Lauderdale to use “poor people’s money” to subsidize transit for affluent?
By William Gjebre
FloridaBulldog.org
Fort Lauderdale’s recent approval of a no-bid contract to update the plan for the troubled Northwest-Progresso-Flagler Heights Community Redevelopment Agency has raised concerns about a lack of public input amid a rush to add projects not in the current plan at the expense of community needs. -
Hallandale Beach skyline to change with massive Diplomat expansion
By William Gjebre
FloridaBulldog.org
A proposal for a massive, four-tower project in Hallandale Beach featuring three hotels, 938 rooms and a 250-unit high-rise condominium under the Diplomat brand will be officially unveiled to nearby residents at a meeting Thursday in the city’s Cultural Center. -
Hollywood Beach CRA the target of moves to cut its funding, or kill it
By William Gjebre
FloridaBulldog.org
Hollywood City Commissioner Peter Hernandez says the Beach Community Redevelopment Agency should be abolished because it has had increasing property tax funds for its use — at times exceeding its needs — while the “rest of the city is starving” to pay for operations and needed improvements. -
Hollywood neighbors beset by traffic fear further expansion by Ben Gamla school
By William Gjebre
FloridaBulldog.org
Representatives of a traffic-congested Hollywood neighborhood are expressing new fears regarding the Ben Gamla middle-high public charter school complex, now under construction, after discovering that ex-congressman Peter Deutsch, a top school official, is linked to acquisition of additional nearby properties which they say could be for future expansion.
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