Filed an eighteen-item Chapter 119 request with the city yesterday, and figured it’s your kind of story since you’ve owned the BSO-Deerfield coverage.
Everyone reported the fight: the “nuclear” roll call, the FDLE complaint, the 4-1 January vote to leave BSO and stand up city police and fire. Nobody’s asked the obvious follow-up. Standing up those departments needs buildings and infrastructure, and that planning leaves a paper trail. When did it start?
The request goes at the timeline. Specifically it asks who switched the West Deerfield Community Center, a building barely a year old, onto a Starlink line, when, and under what procurement; the contracts and the early-termination fee on whatever it replaced; every consultant deliverable on public-safety transition and facility planning; and floor plans and use-change records for that rec center. If the facilities planning predates the public debate, the debate was theater. If it doesn’t, that’s a fair answer and I’ll say so.
I’m not carrying water for the sheriff, I’ve got an open ethics complaint against Tony. And I’m not carrying water for the city. The request is neutral: produce the records or certify they don’t exist.
Production is rolling, so records come out in batches over the next few weeks, and I’ll share each batch as it lands if you want to track it alongside me.
