Category: Broward Sheriff’s Office
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Broward, Hollywood wrangle over 911 radio network ‘mess’
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward County blames a fight with the city of Hollywood for the county’s failure to upgrade a dangerously deficient 911 radio system for first responders. Hollywood residents who’ve worked tirelessly to save a environmentally sensitive park where the county wanted to install a radio tower disagree. They say the buck stops with the county. -
Big Demo donor continues to fuel Tony campaign in a big way, even as it refunds questionable $10k contribution
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s campaign received a big boost as it enters the final weeks before the Aug. 19 Democratic primary, yet it also gave back $10,000 it got from an employee of a South Carolina firm that last year won a $750,000 BSO contract for bleeding-control kits. -
Sheriff Tony’s PAC nets 10K from employee of company that got $750K BSO bleed kits contract
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two weeks after BSO paid South Carolina’s North American Rescue LLC as much as $750,000 last year to buy bleeding-control kits, the company’s CEO contributed $5,000 to Sheriff Gregory Tony’s political action committee. Eleven days ago, the PAC reported getting $10,000 from an “unemployed” South Carolina woman who in fact works for North American. -
DeSantis rush job: Records show feeble FDLE screening of Broward Sheriff Tony
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office didn’t ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct a background check on Gregory Tony until the day before DeSantis announced that Tony was his choice to be Broward’s next sheriff, according to state records obtained by Florida Bulldog. -
Amid nationwide racial unrest, renewed interest in Broward’s most horrific miscarriage of justice
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
For more than a decade it’s been publicly apparent that Jerry Frank Townsend, a black man, was framed by Broward Sheriff’s Office, Fort Lauderdale and Miami police detectives who coerced him into confessing to nearly two dozen sex murders of African-American women and children that he didn’t do. -
While a Coral Springs cop, Sheriff Tony used city email to obtain records, build his private training business
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In his final year as a police sergeant in Coral Springs in 2016, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony used his police email account to forward various law enforcement records, including a sensitive FBI report, to himself at his private safety training business.
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