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Tampa citizens to call for civilian review board to monitor police

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Two years ago, officials at California State University-Fullerton produced a comprehensive report onĀ policeĀ civilian oversight boards. Among their findings was that obstacles to creating a successful agency included politicians who have a ā€œlaw and orderā€ agenda not conducive to oversight — and, even if such an agency was created, the powerĀ that lawmakers have toĀ limit their oversight powers through legislation or budgets. That’s just part of the institutional barriers that Tampa citizens who will be calling for such a board may face…

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What really is ‘fair districting?’

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As someone who has testified many times in Florida reapportionment cases, the voters of Florida and then the state Supreme Court got most everything wrong when it comes to ā€œFair Districts.ā€ I have been hired numerous times by the state or national NAACP to testify about the legacy of voter discrimination in Florida. When you face hundreds of years of discrimination, the state has some obligation to right that wrong. If someone robbed your house, you would like to be…

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Bob Buckhorn takes his act to Tally

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Bob Buckhorn travels to Tallahassee tomorrow in what is being seen as his first overt move to broaden his statewide appeal in advance of 2018, when heā€™ll likely take a run at the Democratic nomination for governor. The Tampa mayor will address the Tallahassee Tiger Bay Club on Friday, as well as tape an appearance on the local public affairs program,Ā The Usual Suspects. The visit comesĀ just a few months after Buckhorn breezed through a re-election “campaign,”Ā complete with receiving a walloping…

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Kathy Castor says she hates Tampa’s Confederate flag

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In the wake of the racist terrorist attack on nine black people at a historic church in Charleston,Ā S.C., last week, there has been a renewed focus on the divisiveness of the Confederate flag ,which currentlyĀ flies on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol. Meanwhile, the biggest Confederate flag in the world (according to its supporters) currently flies proudly at the intersection of I-75 and I-4 in east Tampa, andĀ U.S. Rep.Ā Kathy Castor says sheĀ hatesĀ that it does. “I just hate it,” she…

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Pioneer Helen Gordon Davis passes away at the age of 88

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Helen Gordon Davis, the first woman from Hillsborough County elected to serve in the Florida Legislature,Ā diedĀ from congestive heart failure on Monday. She was 88. “She was one of the most effective, powerful women leaders in the Florida Legislature,ā€ Hillsborough County Commissioner Chair Sandy MurmanĀ said last fallĀ at an event at the Women’s Centre in Hyde Park, a facility that Mrs. Davis helped create back in the early 1970s to help women succeed both personally and professionally. She was a native New…

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Les Miller: TPD bike policy should be suspended, but still confirm new Chief

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Hillsborough County Commissioner Les Miller thinks the Tampa Police Department’s policies on bicycle infractions, which disproportionately singled outĀ blacks in the city, is wrong and should be discontinued until the Justice Department concludes itsĀ review of the policy. But he doesn’t think it should hold up the confirmation of newly appointed Police Chief Eric Ward. “I do understand what some of the argument is — that a lot of these gangs are riding these bicycles, and that they (the police) are stopping…

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Two Tampa City Council members say they’ll weigh bike citation policy in approving Eric Ward as new chief

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A half-hour after Eric Ward was named theĀ new police chief for the city of Tampa, two City Council members joined a coalition of activist groups who again called on the Tampa Police Department to temporarily stop their current bike citation policy — Ā at least until after the U.S. Justice Department finishesĀ its review of the agency’s practices. Council Chairman Frank Reddick and District 7 Council member Lisa Montelione joined members of the ACLU, CAIR, the NAACP and a host of other…

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