Last December in a pair of workshops, the Flagler County Commission discussed the county’s commitment to funding school resource deputies in concert with the school district. The county is not required to make that contribution, but has done so in a 50-50 arrangement for almost a decade. Commissioners are now interested in revisiting that arrangement and possibly ending it. They directed County Administrator Heidi Petito to have discussions with the school district. Petito the year before had raised that very issue to the commission, prompting Sheriff Rick Staly a few weeks later to write then-Commission Chairman Greg Hansen a four-page letter strongly criticizing the proposal, and laying out his position on school resource deputy funding. In light of the commission’s more concerted intent to look into the possibility of ending the arrangement, that letter appears below in full. (See: “Flagler County Plans to End $1.4 Million Contribution for School Deputies, Administrator Tells Superintendent.”
It was brought to my attention that at the December 5th budget workshop for the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners, the County Administrator suggested eliminating Board of County Commissioner funding for the School Resource Deputy program. This funding has been jointly funded by the Flagler County School District, the City of Palm Coast and the Flagler County BOCC for many years. This partnership to keep our students safe is an example of governments working together for the good of our community. This model also has a high level of community support. At the end of the day, it is taxpayers’ money no matter whose pot the money comes from.
Neither my staff nor I were consulted prior to this comment to the BOCC. If we had been I would have voiced my concern that defunding school resources deputies is fundamentally wrong and would risk the safety of students, teachers, and support staff on school campuses and would be paramount to defunding law enforcement on the backs of our children.
I am further surprised that with a county budget of $222 million the only opportunity the County Administrator can suggest to you puts our children’s safety at risk and cuts the Sheriff’s Office budget. While the County Administrator is correct that the County Commission is not required to support school safety by law, a survey conducted by the Florida Sheriff’s Association on SRO funding found that while funding partnerships vary throughout the state on average County BOCC’s support for SRO programs is at 50 percent funding, with some BOCCs funding as much as 100 percent of the SRD’s costs and a very few, actually only two School Districts in Florida, pay 100 percent of the SRO costs.
This same theory of funding not being “statutorily required” argument can be made for the BOCC’s decades-long policy of funding a base level of county-wide law enforcement services. Using this funding strategy, are you going to cut law enforcement services to the City of Palm Coast, Beverly Beach and Marineland, which would dramatically increase taxes on these residents and voters to start their own police department or contract with the Sheriff’s Office? Even if you did this, Florida law requires the Office of Sheriff to be the “conservator of the peace,” which means if a municipality does not have dedicated law enforcement services, the Office of Sheriff is still required to provide services. I realize the County Administrator is looking for revenue, but I believe the BOCC is looking in the wrong places.
After the horrific tragedy of the high school shooting in Parkland in 2017, which left 17 students and staff dead and 17 injured, the Florida Legislature passed new laws in 2018 and 2019 encompassing a number of significant changes and requirements for school safety. What they didn’t change was the Florida Department of Education Safe Schools funding formula, which they should have. The current formula, developed in the 1980s, penalizes school districts that are in low-crime rate counties, such as Flagler County. Now that school safety requirements are the same across every county, the formula should have been changed, too.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has 12 Deputies plus a supervisor assigned to Flagler County’s traditional schools, who provide security, investigate campus incidents, mentoring, and leadership to over 13,000 students at nine public schools, plus one charter school. Each campus has one SRD (School Resource Deputy), with the exception of our two High Schools, which have two SRDs at each campus. These campuses, especially our high schools, are small cities. Flagler County SRDs are equipped with all necessary equipment to include medical kits with tourniquets, bandages, and gloves. They also wear ballistic vests with a rifle plate and have immediate access to an AR-15 to help protect them and others and to immediately stop a threat to our children.
Due to the rise in school violence and threats nationwide and here in Florida over the last two decades, using best practices for a School Resource Deputy program have proven highly effective at thwarting potential violence, immediately addressing threats of harm, and keeping our schools safe so faculty can focus on their mission of educating our children and our youth. Since 2020 there have been 101 school shootings in the United States. This is not the time to reduce SRO funding. It is the time to enhance current levels of school security with the Guardian Program and to fix the Department of Education’s safe schools funding formula.
Locally, we can provide examples of potentially violent incidents which were prevented or immediately and effectively addressed by our School Resource Deputies. They have also successfully prevented and solved a number of crimes. Our SRDs intercept, investigate, and handle all school threats in conjunction with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Homeland Security Section.
The level of professionalism, hard work, innovation, and devotion of our SRDs is a model to be emulated by other counties. Consistent success with the tremendous responsibility for the safety for over 13,000 students and 10 campuses demands an exceptional degree of dedication, reliability, and hard work, as well as strong and positive relationships with staff, students, parents, and teachers. Our SRDs teach computer safety, bullying awareness and safety, bicycle safety, home alone tips, and numerous other topics in our elementary schools.
In middle and high schools, they lead the Flagler Sheriff’s Police Athletics League, the Junior Police Academy, the Flagler Sheriff’s Explorers and teach active assailant education to students and faculty. They provide D.U.I. avoidance education, ensure the success of our S.W.E.A.T. (Sheriff’s Work Ethic and Training) program, have an EOD K9, and participate in the Law and Justice Flagship program at Matanzas High School. The School Resource Deputies regularly participate in events such as Polar Plunge, Safety Expo, Mobile PAL, McGruff mentoring, and many others.
Our mentoring of students is evident through their academic and personal success. Each deputy mentors and encourages our students in school and at school events, coach sports, and serve as leaders in our youth programs. In fact, in 2021, School Resource Deputy Christopher Alecrim was selected by the National Sheriff’s Association as the Law Enforcement Explorer Advisor of the Year. Our SRDs are more than school security and their engagement prevents youth crime and makes our community safer for everyone.
As you may know, there is current discussion to implement a school guardian program in Flagler County by the School District. This should only be utilized to enhance the current Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s SRD program. Guardians are not as well-trained as deputy sheriffs and are not equipped the same as a deputy sheriff. I have made it very clear to the School District and now to the County Commission that I will not support guardians as a substitute for our SRD program. To do otherwise would be to make our schools less safe for our children.
The County Administrator’s sole recommendation to you to deal with a perceived but unlikely county budget deficit, assumes that everything else within the county budget is a higher priority than the safety of our schools and children. Again, this recommendation was not discussed with anyone in my office. Had it been discussed with my team, we would have had the opportunity to explain why this recommendation constitutes poor public policy.
I am confident that your County Administrator can find $700,000 out of your $222 million dollar budget without jeopardizing the safety of our children, teachers, and schools or defunding the Sheriffs Office in other areas. In fact, I can point you to one. In the current budget the BOCC budget anticipated $800,000 being returned to the BOCC from the tax collector in year-end funds, when in fact the Tax Collector’s Office returned over $1.19 million to the general fund. This covers a large part of the budget deficit being discussed.
Risking the safety of our children should never be on the list of funding cuts. Like other counties, our county government provides services and levels of service which are not mandated by Florida law. Local governments regularly recognize priorities and responsibilities in the absence of statutory mandates. I proffer that a school safety partnership is one of them.
If funding is cut for SRDs or SRO funding is retained but funds from other Sheriffs Office operations are reduced to maintain SRD’s, this would be tantamount to defunding law enforcement in our community. I will not accept the concept that “we give the Sheriff the money and what he does with it is up to him,” as was the mantra during the most recent budget process about pay raises to keep our Deputy salaries competitive. The facts are, just like they were on the pay increase issue, the SRDs and Sheriff’s operations are either funded in whole or are not. If you chose to not fund or partially fund either, your actions make the cuts in services, not mine.
Each year, I have worked closely with each governmental body to ensure the success of the SRD program and the safety of our students. However, I cannot change the state allocation formula. But I will gladly assist you and your team and the School District for a legislative change to make state Department of Education’s safe schools funding more equitable across the state.
If the County Commission is truly going down this path of cutting funding from the SRD program, I ask you to take a commission vote sooner than later and have your County Administrator notify the School District, my office and the community advising all parties that the County is reducing funding for school safety. The school district’s new budget year starts July 1, 2023, so time is of the essence.
I have also heard the BOCC wants the City of Palm Coast to pay more for its law enforcement services. Since I have been Sheriff, the City of Palm Coast has paid 100 percent (or up to any contract limits) of new enhanced service-level deputies, but not the basic level of service funded by the county-wide property tax. If the BOCC is truly planning to change its decades long policy and formula of providing a basic level of law enforcement services county-wide, I also ask you to notify the City of Palm Coast of this change.
This policy change would likely reduce law enforcement services in the City of Palm Coast and raise taxes on city residents. I once again recommend the BOCC and the Mayor and City Council work together on a funding formula for the Sheriff’s Office that both governments can agree too so this issue is settled. My staff and I will be glad to participate in any discussion the BOCC schedules with the City of Palm Coast.
Wallingford says
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims. Who on the BOCC is going to deliver the message; who is going to say the lives of our Students, Teachers, or Staff were not important enough to fund a SRO or SRD. I am certain that in the current Budget there is a sufficient slush fund in which the funding can be found
Samuel L. Bronkowitz says
I’m sure we can find someone else that is willing to stand around and do nothing and then clutch pearls over it later for a lot less money
Tammany Hall says
Sheriff,
Your problem isn’t the County Commission it’s the inept County Administrator Petito.
Once again not paying attention to the meeting. Desperate to find money she is will to suggest that school safety is not important rather money is.
I say take the money from that stupid library and all the problems will be solved.
Petito is too busy keeping her friends safe in job that our children.
Get rid of her were wasting our money.
Denali says
Not going to disagree on MS Petito’s abilities as I have no personal knowledge of her or her documented actions. Nor will I debate the wisdom of SRO’s or who pays the bill. What I do ponder is why someone with a ‘handle’ like “Tammany Hall” would suggest taking funds from a public library? Never-mind, got it figured out – part of that ‘keep ’em on the plantation mentality’. The less knowledge that the public has access to, the better to dupe them. Good old Boss Tweed – “As long as I count the votes; what are you going to do about it?”
So once you dump the library what is next in our grand plan? “Kill all the lawyers’? Censor the media?
Samuel L. Bronkowitz says
Oh. Rick Staly. How’s the Flagler Liberty Commission doing?
Tammany Hall says
“Sammy boy the pipes are calling you.”
Here’s the thing you got it. At the end of the day. It the management that is the issue.
How do you put a person that was never a County Administrator in charge of a 222 million dollars budget!
It’s a rookie mistake Petito made. She went after the fattest budget first. In my day once you go after the big budgeted division that come with political consequences.
She needs to go and the BOARD needs to grow a pair of balls to get it done.
You’re friends at Tammany Hall & Boss Tweed
Fernando Melendez says
Our children’s safety is non negotiable period.
Save our Children says
Children’s Safety………..Pickleball courts
Gee, I wonder which is more important to the City Politicians ?
TR says
Duplicate comment because there was an data base error the first time. The powers that be do not have to post this comment if my first comment goes through.
Getting rid of the SRO is IMO a stupid idea. If they do this the school board better get ready for a major law suite after the first mass shooting takes place in one of the flagler schools.
The Geode says
Use that 6K of the proceeds from the fictitious 3/4 of a million dollars of those phantom drugs you claim that you recovered …or stop squandering resources pretending to be a “Great Value Brand” DEA while chasing around junkies and nickel-bag sellers.
Grady Judd would never…
JimboXYZ says
What a mess, fiscal mismanagement across the board. Just remember, the growth was supposed to pay for all of this, impact fees, booming overpopulation ?
Michael J Cocchiola says
The sheriff is right! It is abysmally wrong.
I just can’t imagine this community deciding that school security is debatable.
Endless dark money says
So they banned books and safe places and people complain about this? There are several instances where the sro was running out the back door when needed most. Pc has added dozens of cops over past several years with decreasing crime rates. Maybe allocate one of those instead.
Jane Gentile-Youd says
Fire Al Hadeed with his $950,000 budget he wastes by outsourcing every legal action to his outside attorney buddies. Instead of giving Captains almost a $million bucks for the Captains lawsuit ( caused by Hadeed sleeping on the job) that money could and should have been used for the county’s school safety contribution.
Jay Tomm says
He’s just mad cause it has to come out of his budget now. He will have to wait to buy his attack helicopter. To go with the armored vehicles & police boat with eh 50cal mounted on it.
KT says
Don’t blame the Sheriff’s Department.
Thomas Hutson says
Sheriff Staley SRO
If this is a reprint of the Flagler County Sheriff’s past views on todays County statement on Funding for the SRO program. Then I’ll offer my comments…
I am NOT in favor of cutting the SRO program! However…
It did not take the Sheriff long to cry “Budget Cutting” or “Defunding” school resource deputies. Sheriff this is not about cutting anything! It deals with who is paying the bill, the Flagler County School Board or the Flagler County BOCC. Like any other government entity, they are responsible for their budget and the services they provide. As stated, this 50%-50% budget of the SROs has been going on for over 10 years between the County and the School Board. What started out as good thing for all concerned is not so today and changes need to be adjusted for it. Where is Palm Coast Government in this arrangement? Not there because the interlocal agreement is with the Sheriff’s Office, hence the County BOCC. This is not about safety of our children in our schools, we all agree there needs to be security in our schools. Sheriff, you know very well that there will be SROs in all the schools, “It is the State Law”, so stop with the “SCARE” tactic on parents. Again, this disagreement is in the budgets on the funding for these deputies. Some in this community need to remember Flagler County BOCC is not a “CASH” cow. They have services that need to be provided by them in their budget, which by the way includes your budget, Sheriff.
As for the extra activities provided by the Sheriff’s SROs, I am sure they would still be provided even if the County was not paying the Bill, or maybe not?
The statement made about the Guardian Program leads one to believe that as far as that program goes it is either your way or the “HIGHWAY”, or maybe not.
The sheriff’s statement about being confident the County Administrator can find $700,000.00 out of $222million dollar budget. Let’s see September 2022 they funded $700,000.00 as a budget increase, nothing from Palm Coast. 2017 a new $155,303.00 boat, a new $400,000.00 mobile command center, what budget did they come from?? Enough said, yes Sheriff the BOCC did find the money, yes, they might be getting some returned from other Constitutional Offices. Have you returned any back, not likely, where did the money come from for the New Boston Whaler or the New Air Boat??
In any case this is about the Flagler County Board of Commissioners setting their Budget on monies they expect to have. The School Board will be setting their Budgets as well as Palm Coast. And your Budget Sheriff is set by you and very little the County can do about it. In any case there will continue to be security in every school building in Flagler County. Only real question being discussed is who will be paying the bill. No need to use scare tactics, not needed!
Kristoph C.. McGillicuddy, III. Mc says
Hallelujah.
Investigative reporters worth their salt need to look DEEP into the sheriff’s budget line by line. Lots of new toys and added positions for so called record low crime rates… maybe a new toy shed in the near future? Wouldn’t want the publics’ prying eyes to see all the bear cats with turrets and new ocean worthy boats (for our many inlets in Flagler County). Wing expansion of an already oversized ops center? How about vehicle maintenance costs for your fleet? I know! Sell your office furniture in the empty offices Staly “needed” because of a bs space study- to include your $20k conference table… what a joke.
Annoyed mom says
It is horrid to even suggest and I am so glad our sheriff is standing up for the community and we need to back him up fast, else they will continue to dismantle things that matter to most of us but not them/their friends.
DoBetter says
Oh Staly, what a pathetic appeal to emotion by invoking the Parkland shooting to keep your funding. Do you understand how vile that is?
“Locally, we can provide examples of potentially violent incidents which were prevented or immediately and effectively addressed by our School Resource Deputies.”
Then why not provide them here? It would surely strengthen your case. You don’t provide them because they don’t exist. “Potentially” violent means it wasn’t violent. Where was the SRO when that volunteer was being beaten? Where was the SRO when all the black students were funneled into an assembly. I have stated 2 incidents where you failed miserably. You state you “can” provide “potentially violent” examples. What kind of world do you think people live in where that would be an acceptable argument?
This whole letter is so rambling and unwieldy that I bet it was punched into an AI and this was the result. You can tell by the wordiness that says absolutely nothing of substance. I would expect much better of a person of your station.
How much of that county money was spent on tricking out and wrapping the SRO vehicles to make them appear cool? What is the argument for an SRO having a better vehicle than a deputy? Misplaced priorities, as usual.
Skibum says
DoBetter: While I can respect a differing point of view on this issue, I think you must have a really distorted mind to think the sheriff’s reference to the Parkland, FL school massacre was “a pathetic appeal to emotion” on his part. Why don’t you ask any of the 17 murdered victims’ family members if THEY think a FL sheriff’s plea to no defund school resource deputy positions is pathetic? We are very fortunate that our local schools have not yet had a fatal school shooting, which many would think that is a good thing. But you want to close your eyes and ears to the violence that is occurring all around us in society, to the prevelance of guns everywhere, and to the documented criminal incidents that have already occurred in Flagler County’s schools including loaded guns found in possession of students on campuses, just because we are lucky enough (so far) that nobody has been killed yet? I think that is outrageous indifference to human life, particularly when we are talking about the safety of children. Do you know that fire hydrants sit idly by on every street, never drawing attention of criticism for the expense of maintenance and upkeep, but nobody dares say we should get rid of them in their neighborhoods just because the homes on streets in a neighborhood havn’t caught fire before. People sometimes fail to correlate the presence of law enforcement with the safety of our communities, and it is when there is a LACK of law enforcement that serious problems increase. The deputies assigned to our local schools should be seen in the same way as fire hydrants in our neighborhoods – they are place there as a safety precaution, to be immediately available in the event of an emergency, and in place to respond right away to try to prevent any incident from getting out of control. When you take away fire hydrants, or in this case, deputy sheriffs from school campuses, you are just compounding problems that could have been dealt with immediately. I hope you reflect on this additional information in the hope that it changes your perspective on why it is important to KEEP law enforcement personnel in our schools. The fact is that children’s lives are worthy of our continued efforts to ensure their protection whether or not any of them have been shot yet.
Chuck says
Risking the safety of our children should never be on the list of funding cuts.
Concerned parent says
It is required per law:
1006.12 Safe-school officers at each public school.—For the protection and safety of school personnel, property, students, and visitors, each district school board and school district superintendent shall partner with law enforcement agencies or security agencies to establish or assign one or more safe-school officers at each school facility within the district, including charter schools. A district school board must collaborate with charter school governing boards to facilitate charter school access to all safe-school officer options available under this section. The school district may implement any combination of the options in subsections (1)-(4) to best meet the needs of the school district and charter schools.
(1) SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER.—A school district may establish school resource officer programs through a cooperative agreement with law enforcement agencies.
(a) School resource officers shall undergo criminal background checks, drug testing, and a psychological evaluation and be certified law enforcement officers, as defined in s. 943.10(1), who are employed by a law enforcement agency as defined in s. 943.10(4). The powers and duties of a law enforcement officer shall continue throughout the employee’s tenure as a school resource officer.
(b) School resource officers shall abide by district school board policies and shall consult with and coordinate activities through the school principal, but shall be responsible to the law enforcement agency in all matters relating to employment, subject to agreements between a district school board and a law enforcement agency. Activities conducted by the school resource officer which are part of the regular instructional program of the school shall be under the direction of the school principal.
(2) SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER.—A school district may commission one or more school safety officers for the protection and safety of school personnel, property, and students within the school district. The district school superintendent may recommend, and the district school board may appoint, one or more school safety officers.
(a) School safety officers shall undergo criminal background checks, drug testing, and a psychological evaluation and be law enforcement officers, as defined in s. 943.10(1), certified under chapter 943 and employed by either a law enforcement agency or by the district school board. If the officer is employed by the district school board, the district school board is the employing agency for purposes of chapter 943, and must comply with that chapter.
(b) A school safety officer has and shall exercise the power to make arrests for violations of law on district school board property or on property owned or leased by a charter school under a charter contract, as applicable, and to arrest persons, whether on or off such property, who violate any law on such property under the same conditions that deputy sheriffs are authorized to make arrests. A school safety officer has the authority to carry weapons when performing his or her official duties.
(c) School safety officers must complete mental health crisis intervention training using a curriculum developed by a national organization with expertise in mental health crisis intervention. The training shall improve officers’ knowledge and skills as first responders to incidents involving students with emotional disturbance or mental illness, including de-escalation skills to ensure student and officer safety.
(d) A district school board may enter into mutual aid agreements with one or more law enforcement agencies as provided in chapter 23. A school safety officer’s salary may be paid jointly by the district school board and the law enforcement agency, as mutually agreed to.
(3) SCHOOL GUARDIAN.—At the school district’s or the charter school governing board’s discretion, as applicable, pursuant to s. 30.15, a school district or charter school governing board may participate in the Chris Hixon, Coach Aaron Feis, and Coach Scott Beigel Guardian Program to meet the requirement of establishing a safe-school officer. The following individuals may serve as a school guardian, in support of school-sanctioned activities for purposes of s. 790.115, upon satisfactory completion of the requirements under s. 30.15(1)(k) and certification by a sheriff:
(a) A school district employee or personnel, as defined under s. 1012.01, or a charter school employee, as provided under s. 1002.33(12)(a), who volunteers to serve as a school guardian in addition to his or her official job duties; or
(b) An employee of a school district or a charter school who is hired for the specific purpose of serving as a school guardian.
(4) SCHOOL SECURITY GUARD.—A school district or charter school governing board may contract with a security agency as defined in s. 493.6101(18) to employ as a school security guard an individual who holds a Class “D” and Class “G” license pursuant to chapter 493, provided the following training and contractual conditions are met:
(a) An individual who serves as a school security guard, for purposes of satisfying the requirements of this section, must:
1. Demonstrate completion of 144 hours of required training pursuant to s. 30.15(1)(k)2.
2. Pass a psychological evaluation administered by a psychologist licensed under chapter 490 and designated by the Department of Law Enforcement and submit the results of the evaluation to the sheriff’s office, school district, or charter school governing board, as applicable. The Department of Law Enforcement is authorized to provide the sheriff’s office, school district, or charter school governing board with mental health and substance abuse data for compliance with this paragraph.
3. Submit to and pass an initial drug test and subsequent random drug tests in accordance with the requirements of s. 112.0455 and the sheriff’s office, school district, or charter school governing board, as applicable.
4. Successfully complete ongoing training, weapon inspection, and firearm qualification on at least an annual basis and provide documentation to the sheriff’s office, school district, or charter school governing board, as applicable.
(b) The contract between a security agency and a school district or a charter school governing board regarding requirements applicable to school security guards serving in the capacity of a safe-school officer for purposes of satisfying the requirements of this section shall define the entity or entities responsible for training and the responsibilities for maintaining records relating to training, inspection, and firearm qualification.
(c) School security guards serving in the capacity of a safe-school officer pursuant to this subsection are in support of school-sanctioned activities for purposes of s. 790.115, and must aid in the prevention or abatement of active assailant incidents on school premises.
(5) NOTIFICATION.—The district school superintendent or charter school administrator, or a respective designee, shall notify the county sheriff and the Office of Safe Schools immediately after, but no later than 72 hours after:
(a) A safe-school officer is dismissed for misconduct or is otherwise disciplined.
(b) A safe-school officer discharges his or her firearm in the exercise of the safe-school officer’s duties, other than for training purposes.
(6) CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING.—
(a) Each safe-school officer who is also a sworn law enforcement officer shall complete mental health crisis intervention training using a curriculum developed by a national organization with expertise in mental health crisis intervention. The training must improve the officer’s knowledge and skills as a first responder to incidents involving students with emotional disturbance or mental illness, including de-escalation skills to ensure student and officer safety.
(b) Each safe-school officer who is not a sworn law enforcement officer shall receive training to improve the officer’s knowledge and skills necessary to respond to and de-escalate incidents on school premises.
(7) LIMITATIONS.—An individual must satisfy the background screening, psychological evaluation, and drug test requirements and be approved by the sheriff before participating in any training required by s. 30.15(1)(k), which may be conducted only by a sheriff.
(8) EXEMPTION.—Any information that would identify whether a particular individual has been appointed as a safe-school officer pursuant to this section held by a law enforcement agency, school district, or charter school is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
If a district school board, through its adopted policies, procedures, or actions, denies a charter school access to any safe-school officer options pursuant to this section, the school district must assign a school resource officer or school safety officer to the charter school. Under such circumstances, the charter school’s share of the costs of the school resource officer or school safety officer may not exceed the safe school allocation funds provided to the charter school pursuant to s. 1011.62(12) and shall be retained by the school district.
History.—s. 282, ch. 2002-387; s. 3, ch. 2018-1; ss. 6, 26, ch. 2018-3; s. 125, ch. 2019-3; s. 11, ch. 2019-22; s. 10, ch. 2021-44; s. 7, ch. 2021-176; s. 37, ch. 2022-154; s. 6, ch. 2022-174; s. 25, ch. 2023-18; s. 2, ch. 2023-61.
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RINO in charge says
We have a tax and spend life long Democrat as Sheriff. He only switched his political party affiliation to Republican when he realized he couldn’t win his office as a Democrat in Flagler. Every year he demands more money and spends spends spends…Did you all know he ran for Sheriff of Orange County as a Democrat?
David Schaefer says
Sell some of the useless stuff such as the boat, tanks, mustangs, office furniture etc…