The Gainesville Police Department is working on a program to keep individuals with minor misdemeanors away from the criminal justice system and decrease court cases.
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The initial visibility of its most prominent efforts so far will appear in the coming months, when it helps to add more summer programming in the county at a cost of $500,000.
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President Biden's pick for attorney general, Merrick Garland, plans to tell senators at his confirmation hearing Monday that leading the Justice Department would be the "culmination" of his career.
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As the year comes to a close, here's a look back at the stories that stayed in the headlines.
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Gainesville’s initiative, established in April 2019, brought in the federal government to create a partnership between local, state and federal law enforcement to reduce gun violence in the area.
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Incumbent R.J. Larizza and challenger Don Dempsey are running to become the next State Attorney for Florida’s 7th Judicial Circuit.
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The legal dispute that prevented Gov. Ron DeSantis from appointing the first Jamaican-born, Black woman to the Florida Supreme Court has left the court without a Black justice for the first time in at least 37 years.
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The May-June mass demonstrations in Central Florida were the largest in decades.
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Mayor Lauren Poe and Police Chief Tony Jones helped lead the discussion.
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Between 2017 and 2018, 81% of the juveniles arrested in Alachua County were black, according to data provided by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
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