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Tampa activists call on City Council to stay strong in civilian review board fight

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On Thursday, the Tampa City Council will hold a workshop to discuss the proposal floated by County Chairman Frank Reddick that would allow council to select the majority of members on the newly created police civilian review board. Specifically, Reddick’s plan gives the Council seven selections, one for each member. Mayor Bob Buckhorn could name the two remaining board members and the two alternates. That’s not what the mayor has announced. His plan calls for him to name nine of the 11 members…

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Indie attorney says City of Tampa lawyer has no conflict of interest in civilian review board controversy

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Gwynne Young, the independent attorney hired by the City of Tampa’s Legal Department for $10,000 to render an opinion on whether City Attorney Julia Mandell has a conflict of interest in the controversy over a civilian review board, has determined that Mandell has no conflict. “The fact that constituents of the organization have internal disagreements does not change the fact that the lawyer’s only client is the organization,” Gwynne writes in her eight-page opinion made public on Tuesday. “The lawyer’s…

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Meltdown at Tampa City Council in latest skirmish on civilian review board issue

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The rocky relations between Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and the City Council deteriorated to a new low this morning at City Hall, after City Council Chair Frank Reddick angrily disagreed with City Attorney Julia Mandell’s choice of an attorney to review if her office has a conflict of interest regarding who she represents at City Hall. The fiery confrontation between the two ended with Reddick muttering, “I’m not going to be a butt-kisser to no one.” The larger issue regards the…

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ACLU tells Tampa City Council they have legal authority to name civilian review board members with subpoena power

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The ACLU of Florida said today that they believe City of Tampa Attorney Julia Mandell was incorrect in her assessment that the city’s charter only allows the mayor to have the right to name the members of a civilian review board. The issue of who controls the power to name such an advisory committee has roiled City Hall over the past month, as a majority of the City Council – backed by their own attorney – insists it has the power…

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Black Lives Matter activist says she’s putting Tampa Democrats on notice

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As the more than 300 Hillsborough County Democrats drove into the parking lot of the Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club to celebrate themselves and their prospects for 2016 at their annual Kennedy-King fundraising dinner, they were confronted by a handful of Black Lives Matter protesters who stood in front of the entrance off of Bruce B. Downs Blvd. “We elect these people. They’re out here at a country club hobnobbing, having a good time, toasting their cocktails, but they’re not…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.10.15 — Few presidential candidates offering specifics on refugee crisis

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Yesterday in Brussels, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union’s top executive, proposed a plan to move approximately 160,000 refugees coming from war-torn and poverty-stricken nations in the Middle East and Africa in response to other countries to deal with the crisis gripping Europe. Although often called “Europe’s problem,” there is increasing discussion about what the United States could, and should, do to take in those fleeing Syria and other volatile parts of the world. Yesterday Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers that he favors “significantly increasing…

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Tampa City Councilman Frank Reddick is lying low regarding current dispute with Bob Buckhorn

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In the recent imbroglio between Mayor Bob Buckhorn and the Tampa City Council regarding who has the power to name the members of a police civilian review board, no one has been more outspoken in challenging the mayor than Council Chair Frank Reddick. “It reminds me that we’ve been a puppet for the administration and I’m past the days of being a puppet,” Reddick said at last week’s meeting. “I’m tired that we’ve been embarrassed, overlooked, overshadowed. It’s disrespectful.” The…

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