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| City council seeks Taser funding approval |
| By First Coast News |
| Published: 08/13/2008 |
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FLORIDA - The city council is looking at appropriating funds to buy tasers for corrections officers and bailiffs. The hearing will be held during the Public Health and Safety committee meeting. The $550,000 would buy 500 tasers for corrections officers and bailiffs in Duval County. The ordinance was first introduced July 22 and has passed through two readings. A Sheriff's Office spokesperson says the funding, which would come from the Spec. Law Enforcement Trust Fund, is merely the last step of a plan several years in the making to put tasers in the hands of officers. The county's bailiffs and corrections officers are the only group to have not yet received tasers. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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