Tampa Right Wing Attacks

Tampa tea party founder Sharon Calvert and conservative activist Sam Rashid have been relentless in their attacks on the Go Hillsborough transportation initiative, suggesting that rampant cronyism influenced the spending of $1.35 million in public funds. 

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But when county sheriff’s investigators last year asked Calvert and Rashid for evidence of wrong-doing, the critics came up empty. “Investigators asked if they had facts to support their claims and allegations but they had none to provide,” investigators said in records released Monday. here

sanctions for Commissioner Sandy Murman

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and State Attorney Mark Ober found no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing in how county staff, commissioners, and private consultant Beth Leytham acted in the months leading up to the selection of Leytham's client, Parsons Brinckerhoff, for the lucrative "Go Hillsborough" project. But the report corroborates 10Investigates findings that Leytham made a habit of influencing decision-makers behind the scenes. 
And Ober suggested sanctions for Commissioner Sandy Murman - and training for other commissioners - over non-criminal public records violations. here

Alan Grayson: Justice For Andrew Joseph III

In February of 2014, 14-year-old Andrew Joseph III from Riverview was killed as he tired to cross Interstate 4 on foot after he was ejected from the Florida State Fair
 in Tampa. 

Alan Grayson met with Andrew’s parents  in Tampa and said he would pursue the Justice Department to investigate the tragic loss of life. On Thursday, Grayson followed up on his promise, penning a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch calling for both 
a Justice and FBI investigation. here
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Grayson notes that this is the same Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office that provided security for the 2012 Republican National Convention and the 2009 Super Bowl. “It seems unfortunate that the same force could not provide adequate security for ‘Student Day. “I’m going to be honest with you – the idea of taking a 14-year-old boy, dropping him off out of a car from where he was, with no practical way to get back in touch with people, to get to any place of safety, seems like inappropriate conduct,” Grayson told reporters inside the Bricks of Ybor. 

HCSO Shuts Down Tampa Business

TECO snitched on Olaff Rosado Garcia who was operating a grow house at 7205 N. Coolidge Ave. Deputies say they observed Mr. Garcia, 31, cutting and bagging marijuana plants in a back room. they seized 31 marijuana plants with a street value of about $170,000, as well as growing materials. here

Hillsborough County Sheriff Office Shut Down Local Business

Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies say a tip received by Tampa Bay's Snitch Line led them to a marijuana growing operation in Lutz. here

Detectives seized 20 marijuana plants, 18 seedlings, 2 ballasts, and two 1000-watt sodium vapor bulbs with ceiling shields.

FBI's secret deal with Florida Department of Law Enforcement

The Florida agreement – obtained from the Hillsborough County sheriff’s office by the Guardian after a series of Stingray-related Freedom of Information Act requests sent over the past seven months – 
reads in part: 

“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will, at the request of the FBI, seek dismissal of the case in lieu of providing, or allowing others to use or provide, any information concerning the Harris Corporation wireless collection equipment/technology, its associated software, operating manuals, and any related documentation.”

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Local Hero Officer Christina Ammons

 I would like to thank the Florida Voices for Animals group for inviting me to be a guest of honor at their 22nd annual "HAVE A HEART FOR ANIMALS" meeting. I was awarded the "Animal Hero Award" and the group made a donation to the Shrimp Docks Kitty Rescue Project which was awesome! I met a great group of people who are completely dedicated to preventing the exploitation and abuse of all animals. This group is also involved with activities which benefit children and others in need as well as the betterment of our environment . I had a wonderful time and want to thank this great group of individuals for all that they do! here 

Tampa Group Raíces en Tampa Press Conference With Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office

On September 12, 2014 (Today) starting at 11:00 AM Raíces en Tampa will be holding a press conference with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. At the press conference we will announce important policy changes affecting the undocumented community of 

Hillsborough County.
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Hillborough County Sheriff's Office - 2008 E. 8th Ave. Ybor City, Fl

Great Work Raíces en Tampa

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office will no longer jail immigrants who are being investigated for deportation, a policy change that brings the agency in line with other local sheriff's offices.

Local immigration activist group Raíces en Tampa is taking credit for the change. here

Rally @ Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Ybor City

Sept. 18th @7:00 - 8:00 pm

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
2008 E. 8th Ave. 

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Rick Scott: The Man With No Answers

Rick Scott's Tampa Visit

 Hillsborough County Sheriff Deputies
in uniform took part in a 
Tampa re-election event for 

Gov. Rick Scott 

Florida lawpublic employees must avoid political activity during working hours.here

“It’s been publicly advertised 
as a campaign event to everyone,” 
including the invitations to law enforcement agencies, 
Scott campaign spokeswoman Jackie Schutz said. 
Florida statute 1094.31 says employees “of the state or any political subdivision may not participate in any political campaign for an elective office while on duty.”
Rick Scott Gets the Support of 40 Sheriffs
This is how we Get Ur Done'  in Rick Scott's Florida

Man Arrested after Video Recording Hillsborough County Deputies

business As Usual For David Gee

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office did not formally discipline any of its employees in the aftermath of a disastrous series of misjudgments that left a jail inmate going nearly 36 hours without treatment for a fatal stroke, agency officials said this week. Allen Daniel Hicks Sr., 51, was arrested in May 2012 by the Florida Highway Patrol after crashing his car into a guardrail on Interstate 275. Confused and unable to use the left side of his body, he was booked into the Hillsborough jail system and spent much of the next two days sprawled motionless on the floor of a cell. Hicks was finally sent to Tampa General Hospital and diagnosed with an ischemic stroke after a jail nurse found him lying in his own urine. He died from the stroke in August 2012. This year, the Sheriff's Office and Armor Correctional Health Services, the private contractor that handles prisoners' medical care, paid Hicks' heirs $1 million in a wrongful-death settlement.
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"To Protect And Serve

Allen Daniel Hicks Sr
Poor guy, he has a stroke on I275 in Tampa and pulls over. When the the cops show up instead of calling EMS they pulled him out of the car, arrested him on a charge of obstructing a law enforcement officer when he did not respond to commands to exit his car and sent him to the Orient Road Jail where he did not receive a medical screening, but was put in a cell where he lay facedown on the floor or tried to crawl using the one working side of his body soaked in his own urine, his brain choked of blood, 36 hours later he was at last taken to Tampa General Hospital and diagnosed with an ischemic stroke. He slipped into a coma and died within three months. His family gets 1 million. How
 sad that we are treated this way by the people we pay to protect us.
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