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Florida Model Jail Standards Committee Are They In Compliance With Public Record Laws? VolusiaExposed Attended And Video Recorded The March 14, 2014 FMJS Meeting |
March 24, 2014 |
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FMJS Meeting In Jacksonville
Representatives from VolusiaExposed.Com attended the March 14, 2014 meeting of the Florida Model Jail Standards Committee in Jacksonville, Florida.
We made it a day trip, travelling with a representative from BrevardsBestNews.Com. The FMJS Committee usually meet bi-annually - the March 14th meeting was scheduled for 9:00Am to 12:00PM - a mere three hour meeting to determine the security and safety operations of all Florida county jails for the next six months. The meeting did NOT last three hours. 
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Our Email Thread With FMJS Officials     |
Is It Failing To Meet Security And Safety Goals For Florida Jails?
This particular article will NOT go into depth regarding to the failures of the Florida Model Jail Standards jail oversight process. VolusiaExposed is currently working on an article that WILL exposed these failures - once we receive our requested public records from the FMJS Committee. These records include evidence that there is a Florida county jail that has not submitted a fire inspection for nearly the last twenty years.(1996)
Florida Model Jail Standards came into existence in 1996, when the Florida Sheriff Association successfully lobbied the Florida Legislature to repeal Florida Administrative Code 33-8.
Under FAC 33-8, the State Prison Inspector handled the oversight process of all county jails. Participation in this oversight / inspection process was MANDATORY.
Under the current FMJS inspection process, the Florida Sheriff Association operates the Florida jail oversight and inspection process. In short, the inspection and oversight process since 1996 has been a peer to peer inspection process. Florida county jails inspect each other.
FMJS officials will attempt to defend their oversight process by pointing out the fact that in 1996 they incorporated the FAC 33-8 standards. This is true - but here is the entire truth. Since 1996, FMJS officials have slowly eviscerated those inital standards with each and every FMJS Committee meeting. A good example of this is the fact that under the initial FAC 33-8 standards, jails were inspected every six months - now they are only inspect once a year.
Also, here is a fact that most FMJS officials will not voluntarily provide - participation in the FAC 33-8 was mandated - while participation on the FMJS process is totally voluntary - in fact some county jails refuse to participate. This probably will explain why there is a Florida county jail that has not submitted a fire inspection for nearly twenty years.
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If you find yourself in need of further information on why the FMJS is, in our opinion, a fraud on the citizens of the State of Florida, we suggest reviewing our past articles. (see right of page --->)
VolusiaExposed is currently awaiting some public records from the FMJS Committee - once these records are secured, we anticipate posting them within a separate article, which should further expose the failures of the FMJS oversight process. Public Record Laws Is Mandatory ! Initially, as you will be able to see in the attached email thread, that FMJS officials attempted to hamper our efforts in securing the public records we needed for our expose` article. Requesting that we file unnecessary paperwork, and subjecting us to delays, in our opinion, was an effort to impede our right to bring this information to the public's attention. While FMJS officials might attempt to cajole us into the belief that their failures were attached to a lack of staff training - we find it hard to believe that this was the first time their staff dealt with a public record request. However, thanks to the efforts of Joel Chandler from CitizensAwarenessFoundation.Org, the FMJS have acknowledged their failures to immediately comply with Florida public record laws. They have promised to fulfil our request for documents. We await their response and the records. |
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We highly recommend for our readers to visit CAFI's website - become more aware of your rights to public records - it's scares the hell out of government officials. Besides, you can not make an informed decision without first being informed.
Maybe consider dropping Joel Chandler an email, and thanking him for his efforts in keeping public information open to the public. We can not stress the impact Chandler has had keeping public records open to the public in general, and the importance Chandler's efforts are to websites like VolusiaExposed, BrevardsBestNews and SeminoleWatch, and others like us.
Stand by to stand by .... more information is anticipated when we receive the requested FMJS records.....over and out !
Maybe consider dropping Joel Chandler an email, and thanking him for his efforts in keeping public information open to the public. We can not stress the impact Chandler has had keeping public records open to the public in general, and the importance Chandler's efforts are to websites like VolusiaExposed, BrevardsBestNews and SeminoleWatch, and others like us.
Stand by to stand by .... more information is anticipated when we receive the requested FMJS records.....over and out !
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If you found this article to be thought provoking, we (VolusiaExposed.Com) invite you to review, the below linked, Special Investigative Report, exposing law enforcement corruption with the State of Florida.
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE SERIES ON LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRUPTION
by Matthew Doig and Anthony Cormier
Volusia County Sheriff's Department
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