City Council Approves Florida Blue Office Space for JSO
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office’s (JSO) Homeland Security Division will soon be getting new office space in Brooklyn’s Florida Blue office tower. Currently, 135 of the division’s 205 employees are housed at a JSO facility at the intersection of Liberty and Beaver streets while the remaining officers are at additional off-site locations. At a Sept. 5 […]
Special Committee Begins Hard Look at Improvements for JSO Facilities
In August, the City of Jacksonville kicked off a series of special committee meetings that will take a hard look at how best to address the critical issues facing Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) facilities on a day-to-day basis. The Special Committee of the Council to Review JSO Primary Facilities met on Wednesday, Aug. 16, for […]
JSO Hosts Town Hall: Agency unveils Realignment Project, new programs
Sheriff T.K. Waters welcomed the community to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) Town Hall Meeting at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center on Wednesday, July 19, where he shared several announcements and discussed new JSO additions. Zoned Out During his address, Waters unveiled his Realignment Project, which replaced JSO’s former Zones of Response with […]
Incidents highlight alternative actions for JSO, communities
Officials have new measures for combating crime, dereliction Repeated gun violence incidents at the Scottish Inn at 2300 Philips Highway have underscored the need for increased crime-control measures in Jacksonville. Early morning on Dec. 31, 2022, police officers found a man shot multiple times on Mark Avenue, a street right behind the Scottish Inn. The […]
