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Flagler County Sheriff

It’s Not Mayberry Anymore: A Matanzas High School Student on Bridging Community, Police and Mutual Trust

April 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Kadance Nickmeyer, a student at Matanzas High School, at Sheriff Rick Staly's desk after winning an essay contest that meant spending the day with the sheriff. (FCSO)

Kadance Nickmeyer, a student at Matanzas High School, entered and won an essay contest through her Criminal Justice class, devoting her essay to pragmatic ways schools, the community at large and law enforcement can build mutual trust in a difficult age.

Flagler Sheriff’s Corrections Deputies Are Being Trained to ‘Rebuild Inmates’ Battling Addiction

April 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

C4 Innovations Senior Advisor Allie Hunter teaches Phase One sessions at the county jail. (FCSO)

In partnership with the Opioid Response Network (ORN), the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) and C4 Innovations are delivering a two- phase training program to deputies working within the walls of the county jail. They are teaching a spring and fall training session to jail staff in order to provide education about addiction, its impact and to help them to be supportive to inmates in treatment programs during their recovery.

Sheriff’s Office Is Flush With New Deputies, a New Operations Center and a New Mobile Command Center Ahead

April 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Sheriff Staly 's address from the Hilton Garden Inn Thursday, to a significantly smaller audience than in pre-pandemic years, was simulcast on Facebook and on WNZF radio. (© FlaglerLive)

The sheriff’s annual address gave him a chance to boast of a crime index 53 percent lower than when he took office in 2017, to summarize the past year in policing, explain current initiatives and project some of what’s ahead, including the big-ticket items–a new mobile command center and the opening of the Sheriff’s Operations Center later this year–and another big ask from the County Commission.

Flagler Sheriff and County Get Their Own Advocate to Help Control Inmate Health Costs

March 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The agreement with Prime Health Services, through the Florida Sheriffs Association, is similar to securing a health advocate who negotiates medical bills after services have been rendered, to lower the costs of overbilling.

Crista Rainey Is Law Enforcement Deputy of the Year as Sheriff’s Gala Raises $156,000 for Employee Assistance Trust

March 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Headlining the Sheriff’s Gala, Sheriff Rick Staly recognized members of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, volunteers and citizens for outstanding service to the community in 2020 and 2021. Sheriff Staly presented awards for Law Enforcement Deputy of the Year, Detention Deputy of the Year, Civilian Employee of the Year, Volunteer of the Year and Citizens of the Year. FSEAT provided each award recipient with tickets to the Sheriff’s Gala for themselves and a guest. This year’s Sheriff’s Gala was dedicated to fallen Detention DFC Paul Luciano.

Flagler Sheriff’s Citizens Academy Spring Session Registration Is Open

March 5, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Learn all about the FCSO including District Policing, Investigative Services, Drug and Gang Enforcement, Victim Services and SWAT. Also, class members get to see Motor Unit and K-9 Unit demonstrations, take part in “Shoot, Don’t Shoot” demonstrations, visit the FCSO communications center and detention facilities and go on patrol with a Deputy Sheriff.

Flagler Sheriff’s 911 Communications Center Re-Accredited

March 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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From the efforts of the FCSO 9-1-1 Communications Center to the cutting-edge technology used by the FCSO Communications Center, the TAC team members were impressed with the overall professionalism of the Agency’s dispatch center and each individual on staff they interacted with.

Sheriff Adds 160 Palm Coast Field Cameras at Parks and Other Facilities to Growing Surveillance Network

February 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

The Flagler County Sheriff's Office has had access to the city's traffic cameras at 44 intersections, for surveillance and crime-fighting purposes, since January 2019. The agency has now formalized an arrangement giving it access to 160 additional surveillance cameras spread throughout the city's properties, from public buildings to parks to utility facilities. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council Tuesday voted to grant the Flagler County Sheriff untrammeled live access to the city’s 160 non-traffic surveillance cameras. Those cameras are not part of the sheriff’s license plate readers, which were installed a few years ago. The cameras in question in the latest agreement are all those located at city parks, City Hall, city facilities like its utilities department, including water and sewer plants, or public works department and other city-owned locations.

Flagler Sheriff Presents 2021 Fourth Quarter Awards

February 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Sheriff's Office's Honor Guard. See a second picture and the names below. (FCSO)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) celebrated those who serve and protect Flagler County with the 2021 Fourth Quarter Awards Ceremony Monday inside the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center in Bunnell.

Sheriff Hires Don Foley, Ex-TV Producer and Mayoral PR, to Lead Public Affairs Office

January 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Don Foley, in an image he provided.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office announces the hiring of a new Public Affairs lead in 2022. Sheriff Rick Staly has recruited Don Foley to his administrative team. Foley comes to Northeast Florida by way of the Mayor’s Office in Huntsville, Alabama where he served as a communications specialist.

Sheriff Staly on Simultaneous July 4 Fireworks in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach: ‘It Will Certainly Strain Our Resources’

January 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

July 4 is a strain on Flagler Beach and law enforcement agencies. If Palm Coast were to hold a fireworks show on the same day, Sheriff Rick Staly said his agency may not be able to support Flagler Beach to the same degree that it has in the past. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly is cautioning the two cities that simultaneous July 4 fireworks will mean his agency might not be able to support Flagler Beach as it has before on that day. But a Palm Coast City Council member has now shifted position, and favors continuing July 4 and July 3 shows, giving each city July 4 in alternate years. But would Flagler Beach agree to hold its shows on July 3 every other year?

Cops and Firefighters Discover Power of GIS in Search and Rescue Drill at Princess Place Preserve

January 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Sheriff's deputies during the morning briefing at Princess Place Preserve, before they were deployed for the exercise. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Fire Rescue personnel joined with Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies, Flagler County Emergency Management and the county’s IT and GIS teams this morning and into the middle of the afternoon at Princess Place Preserve for the first joint exercise in more than half a decade. Some 75 participants were involved.

Sheriff’s Real Time Crime Center Supervisor Nichole North Graduates from FDLE Analyst Academy

December 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Florida Law Enforcement Analyst Academy Class 32 graduation.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Real Time Crime Center Supervisor, Nichole North graduated from the Florida Law Enforcement Analyst Academy. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) announced the graduation of 21 law enforcement analysts from 10 criminal justice agencies throughout the state who all serve in crime intelligence analyst roles.

Sheriff’s Deputies Provide Gifts to Daytona North/Mondex Children

December 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) attended an event at the Country Store in Bunnell to spread holiday cheer for the local youth. Chief Williams, Commander Miceli, Deputy First Class (DFC) Dawson and Deputy Beausoleil were excited to distribute gifts to the children.

Sheriff Staly Says Target’s Ties to Shop With a Cop Irreparably Destroyed as Company’s Statements Vacillate

December 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff Rick STaly appearing on a segment of "Real America" with Dan Ball on on One America Network on Dec. 21. (Rumble)

What started with an email from target to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Shop with a Cop charity in October and a puzzled response that went unanswered has turned into a full-bore and continuing assault on the company by Sheriff Rick Staly, who has been lambasting Target for “talking out of both sides of their mouths” after abruptly severing a 13-year relationship with what  had previously been known as Christmas with a Deputy. 

Under Fire, Sgt. Matt Mortimer Quits Troubled Bunnell Police–and Applies to be Deputy at Flagler Sheriff’s Office

December 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Matt Mortimer had been a police officer with the Bunnell Police Department for 16 years. He is hoping to become a Flagler County Sheriff's deputy. (© FlaglerLive)

Matt Mortimer, a 16-year veteran of Bunnell’s police department, resigned after being directly implicated in a withering disciplinary report against ex-Police Chief Tom Foster, whom the city manager criticized for protecting Mortimer and downplaying allegedly serious breaches of protocol and policies. Mortimer immediately applied to be a deputy at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

Shop With a Cop, In Its 14th Year and Under a New Name, Lights Up Walmart

December 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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By the time Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies were done donating for this year’s Shop With a Cop spectacular, they’d raised enough money–close to $16,000–to ensure that more than 90 children would each get $175 gift certificate to spend on presents for themselves and their families.

Before ‘Retiring,’ Bunnell Police Chief Foster Was Severely Disciplined Over Grave Breakdown of Authority, Respect and Morale

December 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Bunnell Police Chief Tom Foster, who left the city last week, seen here at a previous City Commission meeting, with Commissioner John Rogers and Mayor Catherine Robinson. (© FlaglerLive)

Tom Foster, who said he retired last week, had violated city policies and general orders, according a nine-page disciplinary document signed the same day he retired, including violations of rules of conduct, supervisory rules, disrespect, the spreading of false rumors and criticism of public officials, while the police department had become a fiefdom of fear under Foster and Sgt. Matt Mortimer.

Flagler Sheriff’s Employees Donate Nearly $16,000 for Shop With a Cop Holiday Program

December 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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FCSO personnel have donated a total of $15,776.83 towards the Shop with a Cop program. Shop with a Cop is part of the mission of the Flagler Sheriff’s Children’s Charities organization and is sponsored and supported by FCSO. The goal of Shop with a Cop is to help children and families that are in need due to economic circumstances, domestic violence, or children that have been placed in the care of guardians so they may have some holiday cheer.

Flagler School Libraries Face Chilling Dangers Beyond Book Bans

November 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

If disingenuous were an undiscovered continent, Flagler County School Board member Jill Woolbright, above, would be its Columbus. (© FlaglerLive)

Book-banning doesn’t really exist: ban a book, and it gains more notoriety than ever. The danger ahead in Flagler schools is Board members Jill Woolbright’s and Janet McDonald’s attempt to keep certain books from even reaching library shelves before they’re bought, thus eliminating the glare of controversy. That kind of self-censorship is far more damaging to diversity on Flagler’s library shelves.

For Another $1.2 Million, County Will Build Planned Addition to Sheriff’s Operations Center Now

November 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Work was proceeding Monday at the site of the future Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

The $23-million, 51,000 square-foot Sheriff’s Operations Center about to rise within sight of the Government Services Building in Bunnell will grow by another 6,000 square feet with the addition of a warehouse.

“No Response From 5111”: End of Watch for Sgt. Dominic Guida as Family and Community Mourn Young Cop’s Loss

November 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Andrea Feagle, Sgt. Dominic Guida's older sister--one of three siblings--after receiving the ceremonial flag from Police Chief Tom Foster. (© FlaglerLive)

Viewing and services for Sgt. Dominic Guida of the Bunnell Police Department, who died on Nov. 9 in the line of duty, brought throngs of law enforcement officers and first responders to First Baptist Church in Bunnell at noon today as part of a two-hour service that ended with Guida’s End of Watch Call. He was 43.

Sheriff Presents 2021 Quarter 3 Awards

November 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Sheriff Staly recognized exceptional service by Sheriff’s Office employees and members of the community, including honoring the team directly responsible for saving the life of a juvenile threatening to jump off the I-95 overpass.

Sheriff Staly Elected Chairman of State Board that Sets Policing Standards Across Florida

October 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Law enforcement accreditation by the legislatively-created state organization is both a sign of distinction among law enforcement agencies and of reassurance to the public:, while Sheriff Rick Staly’s election as its chairman “speaks very clearly about how trusted and respected Sheriff Staly is here and across the State of Florida,” in a former agency director’s words.

County Approves $16 Million for Next Phase on Sheriff’s HQ Construction, and October 2022 Move-In

September 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The 8.4-acre job site of the future Sheriff's Operations Center this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

The project’s “substantial completion date” of the 51,615 square-foot, two-story, $23 million building is now slated for Oct. 10, 2022, almost a year later than projected last December. But there have been no further delays since June.

Flagler Sheriff’s Office Thanks Community for Support for Fallen Hero Detention Deputy Paul Luciano’s Family

September 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Sheriff Rick Staly hugging Brian Luciano, one of Paul Luciano's children, at the detention deputy's funeral service on Sept. 3. (FCSO)

The Flagler Sheriff’s Employee Assistance Trust (F.S.E.A.T.) established a GoFundMe account to support DFC Luciano’s family in his line-of-duty death from complications of COVID-19 and the community graciously donated $7,655.

Palm Coast Policing Budget Will Jump 42% with 10 New Deputies, Tax Rate Will Dip a Smidge, but at Reserves’ Expense

September 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The Flagler County Sheriff's Office's Mark Strobridge had reasons to smile--10 reasons--as he walked away from the podium after answering questions from Palm Coast City Council members this evening. The council, with some disagreement, had granted the 10 additional deputies Sheriff Rick Staly requested. The council had a harder time settling on a property tax rate. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council Thursday evening ended weeks of wrangling over its budget and tax rate and voted 3-2 to approve awarding the sheriff all 10 requested additional deputies and reduce the tax rate enough to save the average homesteaded homeowner about $11, while using $530,000 from city reserves to make the numbers work.

‘Our Darkest Hour’: Flagler County Sheriff Eulogizes Deputy Paul ‘Looch’ Luciano, ‘Invisible Hero’ Felled by Pandemic

September 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Deputy Paul Luciano's coffin as pallbearers approached First Baptist Church in Bunnell for this morning's service. (© FlaglerLive via FCSO video)

“This is a tough day for all of us. And, we begin this service doing the same thing we have been doing for the last 7 days, wondering why Paul lost his life serving and protecting our community.  We may never know that answer,” Sheriff Rick Staly said today in his eulogy of Corrections Deputy Paul Luciano, the jail’s first line-of-duty death in the department’s history.

Flagler Sheriff’s Ex-Counsel Says She Was ‘Forced to Resign’ Over Tactless Opinions; Rick Staly Responds

September 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly. (© FlaglerLive)

On Aug. 25, the News-Journal’s Frank Fernandez reported on the resignation of Theresa Pontieri, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s recently hired general counsel, after the News-Journal had inquired about inflammatory videos she had posted on a conservative social media platform.

Palm Coast Council Has Votes to Increase Deputies By More than 6 and Lower Tax Rate Symbolically

August 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Mayor David Alfin, left, and Council member Eddie Branquinho see funding policing and and the tax rate differently this year. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council is in a 3-2 split that would approve lowering the property tax rate symbolically and increase the number of deputies the sheriff is requesting to police the city by more than the six the administration had been prepared to award.

Fallen Deputy’s Daughter’s Anguish: ‘This Virus Has Come Home, It’s Everywhere and It’s Killing the People We Love’

August 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff's Corrections Deputy Paul Luciano, who died Thursday, with his daughter Tina Luciano last June. (Facebook)

Tina Luciano, the 30-year-old daughter of Paul Luciano, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Corrections Deputy who died on Thursday of covid complications, had written of witnessing her father’s struggle three weeks ago, and wrote again after losing him on Thursday, both times voicing her grief–and both times urging people to get vaccinated.

County’s Budget Agreement Nets Sheriff 10 of 15 Requested Deputies and $400,000 Mobile Command Vehicle

August 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Flagler County Commission today approved pulling $400,000 from its reserves to enable the purchase of a new mobile command center for the Sheriff's Office. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission this afternoon agreed to lower the county’s property tax by a symbolic decimal point next year, though county revenue will still grow by nearly $6 million and the sheriff will get an additional $2.2 million, ensuring the addition of 10 new deputies and a $400,000 mobile command center.

Palm Coast and Flagler at Risk of Overfunding Police

August 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Policing in Flagler has never been at risk of "defunding," nor have relations between police and the community lacked for cohesion and respect. (© FlaglerLive)

Policing in Flagler has never been at risk of “defunding,” nor have relations between police and the community lacked for cohesion and respect. But Sheriff Staly’s request for 25 additional deputies from Palm Coast and the county overplay a hand, while both governments are teetering on going along with what would be overfunding police, at the expense of other needs.

Man Who Killed Flagler Sheriff’s Deputy Chuck Sease in 2003 Wants Clemency, Half-Way of 35-Year Prison Sentence

August 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Deputy Charles Sease's name is one of five law enforcement officers' names engraved on the Flagler County Sheriff's memorial to the fallen, and the last officer to die from a hostile act in Flagler, in 2003. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and State Attorney R.J. Larizza have written the state clemency board stern letters opposing any commutation of sentence for Bruce Grove, the now-46-year-old former Palm Coast resident serving 35 years in prison for the killing of Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy Charles “Chuck” Sease in 2003 as Grove was eluding other deputies in a chase.

Flagler Commissioners Want to Cut Tax Rate, Give Sheriff 15 Deputies And Force Staff to Cut $2 Million in County Services

August 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

County Administrator Heidi Petito tried to defend her budget today. Some of the commissioners want it to subsidize the budgets of the sheriff, of the clerk of court and other constitutional officers.

A majority of Flagler county commissioners ignored their administrator’s and finance director’s numbers and proposals today and told their staff to find ways to cut $2 million from the county’s own budget while ensuring that the sheriff and other constitutional officers, such as the clerk of court and supervisor of elections, get all the budget increases they’re asking for.

Crisis at the Border: Sheriff Staly’s On-the-Ground Report on a ‘Failed Immigration Policy’ Affecting All Communities

August 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Migrants that have crossed the Rio Grande surrender to U.S. Border Patrol near an area known as Rincon. From here they will be transported to a processing center. (CBP)

Earlier this month Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly took part in a fact-finding trip along the Texas side of the border with Mexico with several other law enforcement officials and U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla. “The border crisis,” he argues, “is coming to you whether you like it or not.”

Sheriff’s K-9 Unit Named Trailing Team of the Year For 2nd Year in a Row

July 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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K-9 Holmes joined the FCSO in April of 2018 and began working with Commander Gimbel. The K-9 Unit made national news after FCSO requested the help of the community in naming the first bloodhound the Agency has had in decades.

Sheriff Requests 10 Additional Deputies for Palm Coast, a 28% Policing Budget Increase Posing Dilemma for City

July 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

The sheriff's appearance before the Palm Coast City Council this morning. (Palm Coast)

The Sheriff is asking for 10 deputies from Palm Coast and 15 from the county in line with a staffing analysis he commissioned last year. But Palm Coast’s budget for next year includes other costly priorities and assumes a slight tax increase as it is. The Sheriff’s request is complicating the city’s math and council members’ already strained dynamics.

County Administrator May Have to Pay Sheriff’s Lunch Back as Operations Center Is Again Delayed, Almost a Year

June 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The opening of the 51,000-square-foot facility is now seen no earlier than the end of 2022, instead of next November. By then, the sheriff will have been exiled from the former Sheriff’s Operations Center on State Road 100 for almost four and a half years–longer than a full term in office.

Quietly, and Without Voter Say, Flagler County Readies to Raise Sales Tax on Everyone. Palm Coast Says No.

June 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

"Let them learn how to tighten their belts and stop buying moldy buildings, but I don't want them coming to us for cover," Palm Coast Council member Ed Danko said of the county's proposal to raise the sales tax. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council today rejected a request by county government to support raising the local sales tax from 7 to 7.5 percent. The rejection deals a blow to county government, which is looking to increase the tax to pay for law enforcement and fire operations, but it also replays tensions from 10 years ago when the county’s approach on the sales tax was equally clumsy and unilateral.

Crime Dropped By Half in Staly’s 1st Term, Giving Flagler 4th-Lowest Rate Among Florida Counties of 100,000 or More

June 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Flagler County’s crime rate in 2020 fell for the 11th straight year, though it’s never fallen as sharply as it has in the last three, when it fell by half since 2017. In 2020, Flagler had the fourth-lowest crime rate in the state for counties of 100,000 or more people, aided in part by the pandemic.

With a Nod to the Memory of a Special Agent, Sheriff Marks Fallen Officers Ceremony After a Year of Heavy Losses

May 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Community members and law enforcement gathered to create a sea of blue-lit candles in memory of those lost in the line of duty at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s annual fallen officers memorial Thursday evening in front of the county courthouse.

Federal Judge Dismisses Suit by 5 Inmates Claiming Constant Bright Lights at Flagler Jail are ‘Human Torture’

May 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Fluorescent lights are on 24 hours a day at the Flagler County jail as a security measure, a jail official says. (© FlaglerLive)

Inmates filed suit over bright lights being on 24 hours a day at the Flagler County jail. A federal judge dismissed the suit on a technicality–the jail is not an entity that could be sued–but the jail administration had previously sought to address the issue with eye masks and is exploring other possibilities.

Almost 3 Years Late and $300,000 Over Budget, County Finally Opens Palm Coast Precinct for Sheriff

May 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly, by the [podium, during the flag-raising in front of the Sheriff's Office's new Palm Coast Precinct this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast Precinct at 14 Palm Harbor Village Way was originally supposed to open in 2018 but fell victims to delays and successive changes of plans before reverting back to its original intent.

Flagler Sheriff’s Daniel LaVerne Gets Distinguished Victim Services Award

April 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) Deputy First Class (DFC) Daniel LaVerne was awarded the 2021 Distinguished Victim Services Award during a virtual version of the annual Victim’s Rights Week Ceremony hosted by Attorney General Ashley Moody.

Flagler Jail Deputy Disciplined Over Alleged Use of N-Word Against Inmate, Which He Denies

April 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Cpl. Peter Descartes in a still from a lipsyncing video he participated in with other sheriff's employees a few years ago.

Flagler County Sheriff’s detention deputy Cpl. Peter Descartes served a one-day suspension without pay last month following an internal investigation over allegations that he referred to a Black inmate by a racist slur in November. Descartes is himself Black, and denied using the term saying he used a different word that sounds similar.

Sheriff’s Ex-Detective Mark Moy Demoted to Civilian Status, Criminal Charge of Domestic Violence Dropped

April 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Mark Moy, a Flagler County Sheriff's detective, has been with the agency 14 years. (FCSO)

Mark A. Moy, the long-time veteran of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office arrested in mid-February on a domestic battery charge, was suspended without pay for two months, demoted to civilian status without any law enforcement authority, placed on disciplinary probation for a year, and will be required to re-apply for a sworn deputy’s position as if he were starting over, his corporal rank now lost.

Flagler Sheriff’s School Deputy Christopher Alecrim Is Law Enforcement Explorer Post Advisor of the Year

April 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler Sheriff School Resource Deputy Christopher Alecrim (FCSO)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) is proud to announce that School Resource Deputy (SRD) Christopher Alecrim, was selected by the National Sheriff’s Association (NSA) as Law Enforcement Explorer of the Year.

With Warning to the Gullible, a Bouncy Sheriff’s Office Launches Deputies on New Transportation Unit

April 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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On April 1, 2021, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) launched the newest Transportation Unit (T.U.), enabling officers to jump higher and help the community faster.

Sheriff Staly Honored as Golden Eagle by Boy Scouts of America on May 12

March 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The Flagler County Golden Eagle Event, hosted by the Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America. The Golden Eagle Dinner event brings together Flagler County’s top corporate and community leaders each year to honor an outstanding member of the community.

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