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Hillsborough County PTC to stop citing Uber and Lyft drivers

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Attempting to try a different course after battling ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft for nearly a year and a half, the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission voted today to propose new regulations that they hope can be pushed by a state legislator in Tallahassee next year. And as a “good faith effort” showing they are trying to work with the industry, the board voted to stop citing Uber and Lyft drivers for operating illicitly until a court hearing at the end of October.…

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Bob Buckhorn says he won’t create a civilian review board that wants to ‘do nothing but tear down our community’

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Speaking in public for the first time since returning from a trip to Ireland with the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn lashed out at activists who have criticized his plan to name the majority of the members of a police Civilian Review Board. He also said that the City Council’s plans to continue to workshop the idea of giving them the power to name that board will go nowhere. “We’re going to get a civilian review…

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Tampa activists blast Bob Buckhorn’s version of a police Civilian Review Board

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If it were up to Bob Buckhorn, there wouldn’t be a police Civilian Review Board (CRB). The mayor signed an executive order creating such a board late last week, after activists and later City Council Chairman Frank Reddick began calling for such an agency in the wake of the report by the Tampa Bay Times in April that the Tampa Police Department was disproportionately citing blacks for bicycle infractions. However, those same citizens who were calling for its creation are criticizing what the…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.1.15 — The meaning of Jim Norman’s return

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Jim Norman, who has been meeting with all types of folks in the community over the past few weeks and months in preparation for a return to local politics, makes it official today. He’s running for a seat on the Hillsborough County Commission. Actually, he made it official yesterday by making pilgrimages to the editorial board of the Tampa Tribune and sitting down with Tampa Bay Times columnist Sue Carlton. Norman thinks he’s going to win this race, outright. He thinks the Democrats in…

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Tampa Attorney Julia Mandell explains why proposed police review board doesn’t have subpoena power

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Critics of Bob Buckhorn’s executive order creating a police Civilian Review Board (CRB) in the City of Tampa have two major bones to pick with the mayor. The first is that they say he’s hogging control of the board and making it into his own fiefdom by giving himself the authority to name nine of the 11 members of the board, with the City Council given just two selections. And they say the proposed agency lacks teeth because it doesn’t have subpoena power to call witnesses.…

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Frank Reddick to propose an alternative on selecting members to Tampa civilian review board

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Tampa City Council Chairman Frank Reddick says he supports the details in Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s plan for a police civilian review board announced on Friday, but he absolutely opposes the fact Buckhorn will choose all but two members of the 11-member board, which includes two alternates. At the next Council meeting on Thursday he plans to unveil his own proposal for an 11-member board, which would give the mayor two selections, Police Chief Eric Ward two selections, and the City…

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Tampa Police say they’ve written only 13 bike tickets this summer

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Tampa Police Chief Eric Ward told the City Council this morning that bike citations in the city are down 69 percent this summer – a radical reduction in citations after a published report this spring showed that the police department had written more bike tickets in the past three years than Jacksonville, Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando combined – with 80 percent of them going to black people. Police gave out 59 bike tickets from May through July, Ward said.…

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