In a few weeks, City Manager Doug Thomas will make arguably the biggest hire of his career when he picks the city’s next police chief. The tenure of Thomas’ last pick to fill the Lakeland’s top law enforcement position ended in controversy and scandal. Former Police Chief Lisa Womack resigned in February after a little […]
Florida’s Sunshine Law: Officials, Public Need To Learn It – The Ledger
For a second time within two years Lakeland taxpayers have been forced to cough up a princely sum for lawyers embroiled in a public-records dispute involving the city’s police department. Last year, the city doled out $225,000 in a failed effort to keep confidential a damaging grand jury report on the then-scandal-ridden department that determined […]
