A source told me, “Bruh, no one’s gonna do shit, that’s how this game is played.”
Or not.
Let me tell you how this started.
A source — and I will describe this source only as uncomfortably close to the situation — told me something that stopped me mid-coffee. Sheriff Gregory Tony’s wife allegedly uses the BSO Research, Development, and Training Center gym on a regular basis. Uses one of the trainers. Receives services from taxpayer-funded staff.
I want to be clear: I don’t know this for a fact. I know it from a source.
Which is exactly why I filed a public records request.
Because here’s what I do know for a fact. The BSO Training Center started as a $34 million project and ended up at $73.7 million. Somewhere in that $39.7 million gap, a $7.5 million wellness amenity package appeared — sauna, cold plunge, and what I can only describe as a recovery experience with better tile work than your bathroom. Also somewhere in that gap: $550,000 in signage, portraiture, doctoral degree designations, and motivational quotations bearing Gregory Tony’s name and face, installed throughout the facility like a man who wanted to make absolutely sure nobody forgot whose sauna it was.
And apparently, according to my source, his wife’s sauna too.
So I did what I always do.
I filed paperwork.
Four specific public records requests to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, submitted pursuant to Florida Statute §119.07, asking three questions that any publicly-funded facility should be able to answer in its sleep:
- Who has a key?
- Who got services?
- Can I have a key too?
That last one is not a joke. Or rather, it is a joke, but it’s also a completely serious legal inquiry.
Download PRR (PDF): Who Has a Key to the Sheriff’s Gym
Here’s the thing about publicly-funded facilities. They can have restricted access. What they cannot have is selectively restricted access with no written policy governing who gets in and why. If the BSO Training Center — which your tax dollars built, staff, maintain, and operate — is available to non-BSO personnel, the criterion determining who qualifies needs to be written down. Somewhere. By someone. In a document that exists.
So I asked. Formally. In writing. Whether members of the general public may access the facility, its staff, and its amenities — including the sauna and cold plunge and the alleged personal boxing coach — on the same basis as other authorized non-employees.
BSO has to answer that question. Or confirm in writing that no records exist describing who is eligible for access and why. And if the answer to that second option turns out to be yes, a $73.7 million publicly-funded facility has no written policy governing who gets a key — well.
<<checking notes, blinks>>
That’s also a finding.
Now let me tell you how the requests got built.
Because this is where it gets interesting, and I am constitutionally incapable of not telling you about my process.
I didn’t just sit down and type these requests into a word processor. I ran them through what I call the Director Method — a multi-model adversarial AI stack where one AI guides and oversees (via LLM created prompts) for other AIs, assigns them opposing roles, and the outputs get stress-tested against each other before a single word goes into the final document.
Red team: playing BSO’s attorney, trying to find every statutory exemption and drafting weakness that would let BSO stonewall the request.
Green team: playing my attorney, hardening the request against those exact attacks.
Aggregator: synthesizing the outputs, flagging the contested items for human review, and producing a litigation preview memo for outside counsel.
The result is four public records requests that have already been argued over by adversarial AI systems before BSO’s attorney ever reads them. Every weakness the red team found got fixed. Every missing records category the green team identified got added. The items where the red team and green team genuinely disagreed went to a lawyer.
And then, most importantly, a human is inserted into the top of the loop. Checking, verifying, looking for slop and hallucinations.
I documented the entire pipeline. Because that’s what I do.
The methodology is called the Stevens Method and the Director Method and it lives at REVOLT.Training, and yes, I am promoting my consulting practice in a blog post about a sheriff’s alleged personal spa situation, and I regret nothing.
Also, I’m gonna roll that out to cities across Florida.
You use Chat … I have five different Generative Models playing pickleball against each other. We are not the same … one of us worked for IBM, and it was not you.
Back to the wife.
I want to be precise about what I’m alleging and what I’m not.
I am not alleging wrongdoing by a private individual. I am alleging that a publicly-funded facility with a taxpayer-funded staff may have been providing services to non-employees with no written policy, no authorization chain, no reimbursement record, and no documented approval from anyone — while the sheriff in charge of that facility spent seven years telling cities like Deerfield Beach that they weren’t adequately funding his deputies.
The person who may have been receiving those services is incidental to the institutional failure. The institutional failure is that BSO apparently cannot produce a written policy governing who uses a $73.7 million facility, who gets a trainer, who gets into the sauna, or who authorized any of it.
If that policy exists, BSO will produce it and we’ll all know the rules.
If it doesn’t exist — if there is genuinely no written policy governing who holds a key to a $73.7 million publicly-funded facility — then Gregory Tony spent nearly $74 million of Broward County taxpayer money building a private amenity with no accountability structure governing its use.
In which case the sauna isn’t the problem. The sauna is the evidence.
The clock is running.
BSO has ten business days under Florida law to acknowledge these requests. The records — access logs, scheduling records, credential issuance documentation, insurance filings, liability waivers, incident reports, vendor contracts, and yes, the policy document that either exists or doesn’t — will follow on whatever timeline BSO decides it wants to test.
I have filed. I have documented. I have a litigation preview memo.
I will report what comes back.
In the meantime, if any of you would like to join me in formally inquiring whether the public may access the BSO Training Center’s sauna and taxpayer-funded boxing coach on a neutral, non-preferential basis — the request language is a matter of public record.
We could make it a field trip.
Chaz Stevens is a Deerfield Beach civic activist, First Amendment litigant, and IMLA CLE Faculty. He has never used a sheriff’s sauna. He has filed paperwork about one. REVOLT.Training | DeerfieldNews.com | Deerfield Actual
