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Pinellas deputy charged after allegedly searching license plate reader database 300 times for woman he arrested (opens the original)
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Pinellas deputy Karl Gwynne was arrested Wednesday morning after allegedly querying an automated license plate reader (ALPR) database around 300 times searching for a romantic interest. Gwynne allegedly searched using a tool designed by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office that searches across all ALPR brands the agency uses, including Flock. That tool obscures the name of the deputy who made the search to everyone except the sheriff’s office. PCSO did not know about the searches until TCPalm re
Pinellas sheriff arrests two deputies after TCPalm reporter sends Flock inquires (opens the original)
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The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two deputies after identifying misuse of automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The agency didn’t catch it until a Florida reporter started asking questions. On Sept. 2, Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told reporters at a press conference there were no current investigations into abuse of the Flock database—one brand of ALPR—by deputies. Days earlier on Aug. 20, TCPalm reporter Jack Lemnus asked about an anomaly he found in publicly-accessible l
‘Keep popping him’: Before killing schizophrenic St. Pete man, officers repeatedly tased him as he appeared to comply (opens the original)
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Bodycam footage shows an unarmed man, who had already attacked police, appearing to comply with instructions when he was inadvertently killed by officers from the St. Petersburg Police Department. At a press conference Monday (warning: graphic content), Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the incident was an “excusable homicide.” On Aug. 22, 2026, Brian Pepal’s stepmother flagged down a passing police car and asked for a welfare check on Pepal, who she said was experiencing a mental healt
‘Nothing was done improperly’: Pinellas sheriff responds to accusations of not disclosing immigrant detention policies to public safety council (opens the original)
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Pro-immigrant activists are calling for more transparency from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office after a representative didn’t disclose information about immigrant detention policies. Records obtained by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay show that the Public Safety Coordinating Council, a lesser-known government body tasked with keeping jail populations down, was given inaccurate information when it asked the Pinellas sheriff’s office about the high number of immigrant detentions. The sheriff’s offi
Sierra Club gives TECO, Duke failing grades on clean energy (opens the original)
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Tampa Bay’s electric utilities are facing a struggle familiar to those of us who were academic delinquents: a bad report card. The Sierra Club’s annual Dirty Truths report evaluates every American electric utility’s progress towards eliminating pollution-heavy energy production methods. Duke scored 7 out of 100. TECO scored 2 out of 100. Utilities were scored by how close they are to hitting three goals the Sierra Club set: eliminating coal by 2030, not building new gas plants through 2035, and
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