Gainesville Police Department

Gainesville police are coming to terms with having to sign the 287(g) agreement, which they have seemingly pushed back against. The agreement gives some law enforcement the power to act as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

A Gainesville High School resource officer received a two-day suspension after failing to turn on his body camera while searching a student suspeted of having a gun and not immediatedly reporting the incident.

Speed ticketing cameras are coming to some school zones across Gainesville within the next few weeks, the first moves in a broader project intended to discourage drivers from racing past students during school hours.

The Gainesville Police Department honored its crossing guards earlier this month during Florida School Crossing Guard Appreciation Day.

A fierce gun battle between a suspected shooter and police unfolded during Wednesday morning’s rush hour near one of the city’s busiest intersections. The gunman and a man believed to be his victim died. Two officers were wounded in the shoot-out.

The Gainesville Police Department reported two people died and two officers were injured after shots were fired along East University Avenue on Wednesday morning.

A judge agreed Thursday to a request by prosecutors to keep jailed indefinitely a man who police said admitted to sexually assaulting, groping or stalking at least five women near the University of Florida campus in recent weeks.

Gainesville Police have recently begun enforcing a 2021 city ordinance that prohibits pedestrians from standing, sitting or walking on a median that is 6 feet in width or less. In 2024, several dozen citations were issued, and there have been four cases in 2025 as of Feb. 14.

Weeks after being shot in the lower stomach while standing near a car parked a block from the University of Florida, Hannah Hanlon doesn’t blame the man who shot her.

A 24-year-old man and two teenagers have been indicted for a Gainesville murder on Feb. 19.