Category: Broward Sheriff’s Office
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Broward Sheriff Tony fires his undersheriff; He suspects she may run against him in 2028
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony sent a shockwave through his office Wednesday when the night before he suddenly fired his longtime second in command, Undersheriff Nichole Anderson. -
Broward Sheriff Tony to take budget fight to Tallahassee, but BSO’s budget numbers often don’t add up
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Dr. Gregory Tony wants the State of Florida to force Broward County to give him a hefty budget increase. He wants it so badly that he and a team of his top brass are planning to travel to Tallahassee to appeal the county’s partial denial of his unprecedented billion-dollar-plus proposal. -
SaferWatch CEO’s federal bribery arrest in N.Y. has Florida sheriffs, chiefs and school officials pressing panic button
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Federal bribery charges in New York against the owner and CEO of SaferWatch, whose panic button and emergency mass alert system is popular with police and other public officials, are reverberating across Florida, but most urgently in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. -
Jury hits Broward sheriff’s union and its ex-treasurer with $4 million verdict in Las Vegas sexual assault suit
By Bob Norman
FloridaBulldog.org
A former labor agent for the Broward Deputy Sheriffs Association was awarded $4 million in damages Wednesday following a trial in which she alleged her former supervisor at the union drugged and sexually assaulted her while she was incapacitated during a work-related trip to Las Vegas in 2021. -
First it was Deerfield Beach’s city manager, now the mayor of Pembroke Park says Sheriff Tony threatened him
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A second public official, the mayor of Pembroke Park, has accused Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony of threatening him with physical harm. -
Florida taxpayers paid $1.72 million to compensate ‘wrongly incarcerated’ Sidney Holmes. Did the state get it right?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The State v. Sidney Lamar Holmes is finally over. After 34 years behind bars, he’s now two years out of prison. And with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signature this month on a special appropriation to compensate Holmes, unanimously passed by the Legislature, Florida’s taxpayers are out $1.72 million.
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