During the first 31 days of 2021, property crime incidents have decreased and violent crime incidents have increased when compared to the first 31 days of 2020. The table below shows the change in incidents from January 1 – January 31 based on reports provided by the Tallahassee Police Department. Total incidents are down 13.0% […]
At the Jan. 27 Leon County School Board meeting, the board approved creating a new Staff Attorney position and discussed the job description of the position. Previously, in December, the board voted to enter an interim agreement with Pittman Law Group after board attorney Opal McKinney-Williams announced that she was joining Pittman Law Group. The […]
City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow appeared on Above the Fold with Tallahassee Reports Editor Steve Stewart on Feb. 2 to discuss issues including homelessness, affordable housing and the new Citizens Police Review Board (CPRB). At the beginning of the show, Matlow discussed how local government has not taken an active role in solving the issue of […]
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to set penalties and allow the state and members of the public to file lawsuits against five tech giants he says are imposing arbitrary, monopolistic rules mostly focused on the discourse of Republicans. Arguing Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and Amazon control […]
By Ryan Dailey, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida legislators and local education officials are trying to pinpoint what happened to nearly 90,000 “missing” public school students, as public school enrollment estimates have dropped amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A mid-school-year estimate by state economists projects that 87,811 fewer students have enrolled in public […]
TR’s weekly report (January 24– January 31) on Leon County COVID cases, hospitalizations, and testing positivity rates is detailed below. TR’s January 24th weekly report can be reviewed here. The weekly COVID report, ending January 31th, shows decreases in new cases and the positivity rate. The 7-day average hospitalization numbers remained unchanged when compared to last […]
Earlier this month, deputies from the Leon County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) voted to form a union for collective bargaining. Florida sheriff’s deputies have had the right to form unions for collective bargaining since 2003, and this is the first time that LCSO has approached creating a union. Matt Puckett, executive director of the Florida Police […]
During their Jan. 27 meeting, the Tallahassee City Commissioners unanimously approved authorizing staff to negotiate a contract with Culpepper/One Day Came, a joint venture, for a new senior center. City staff used the Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) approach in which a project must be executed within a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP), staff ranked Culpepper/One […]
After a discussion about process and the qualifications of one candidate, the Leon County Commission settled on 15 names to send to Governor Ron DeSantis for the Children’s Services Council Board. Based on a process set earlier, each of the seven county commissioners had two picks from the pool of 83 applicants. The fifteenth selection […]
At the end of Wednesday’s City Commission meeting, Mayor John Dailey commented on the issue of homelessness in Tallahassee, which has been spotlighted recently due to controversy surrounding a temporary homeless shelter on Mahan Drive. “We are at a crisis situation in this community, and we must address what is going on with those that […]