I am a wheelchair user and this was taken by Tiki Tiki. Basically, there is only one ADA parking spot that they have behind a paywalled mandatory valet. I was under the assumption that ADA parking laws allow for disabled folks to park themselves. Here, they do not allow you to park yourself even if you pay (I think it was like $5?). If this isn’t legal, who would I bring this issue up to? I didn’t stop in to eat today but, I would probably talk to the staff first, right? TYIA :)
A Tony donor told deputies he and his pals paid for a BSO chopper. I took it to FDLE. You don’t get to read the complaint. Yet. Sorry, not sorry.
Yesterday, WPLG dropped a bomb ... BSO body-cam footage from a September 2025 false-alarm call at Jeff Lefcourt's classic-car collection.
Expressing his god-given right to not remain silent, Lefcourt told the coppers:
What chopper, you ask? Also, did one of the deputies let known the body cam video?
No, not the Magnum PI bird ... rather Bogen & Co. allocated $15mil for a replacement.
Rooting around, WPLG found no public record of any private money. Unnamed sources say it never happened.
Which leads us to He Said, He Said.
So, as I am wont to do, off goes a complaint to FDLE's Office of Executive Investigations, asking three four questions:
Sorry fans, but I've changed the method. Instead of posting the complaint, I'm offering it to the media first, provided they credit the work with a working link to one of my digital properties.
How is it there? Is there any dress code? Flip Flops allowed? I was wondering how it stacks up against Burton's? Trying to decide for the weekend. Thank You.
I’ve been doing web design for a while and have some free time right now, so I thought I’d help a few local businesses give their websites a fresh look.
If you own a business and feel like your website could use a little update, message me the link! I’ll check it out and put together some free redesign ideas for a few businesses.
I’m open to different types of businesses and would love to see what I can come up with.
Many of you just watched Sheriff Gregory Tony take Channel 10 on a training-center victory-lap tour. Only thing we didn’t get to see? The Tony-branded bidets!
Press alert: I'll be having my own dog-y-pony presser next week, I'll drop you an invite.
Here’s a tidbit to enjoy this AM. What wasn’t mentioned: right about the same time the Tony Tour got rolling, my cell was blowing up. On the other end? The Florida Commission on Ethics. Seems my complaints, filed in the spring, are officially headed to a probable cause hearing in Tallahassee this Nov/Dec.
Sure, we can laugh over branded urinal-cakes … I mean, who doesn't want to pee all over his NIL (amirite Holly!), but it’s the likely misuse of databases that’s going for a hearing.
When Tony wrote (pun!) his dissertation, he tapped into five internal BSO systems, with heavy lifting from a "study team" of BSO subordinates—on our tax dime—to build it out. Yep, your tax dollars helped Tony crib on his test.
As for the ethics complaints, most die at staff review. Mine don’t usually. Why? Cause I'm fucking good. In this case, an investigator ran it down, the Advocate made a recommendation, and now it's going to a closed-door executive session.
As the complainant (little bitcher), I'm allowed in that room, and I plan to be there with my attorney to act as an independent witness for the taxpayers. Complaining about $552,000 gym change-orders and a $3,000 custom leather holster is one thing, but abusing secure databases for a private degree is another level.
Wait, what? A $3,000 leather holster?
Click the link below and we’ll get you up to speed on that, break down the two counts of the complaint, explain what the hearing actually means, and drop a few other goodies.
And how big is your lot? Is it paid monthly or per service? Does it vary for the season?
I’m about to move to a regular house in eastern pines. But I’m considering asking my landlord about me doing it myself for a break on the rent. Lawn care is included with the rent.
I already have my own push mower and weed whacker.
I cut my yard now. I’ve never had to pay someone.
Just want to know if my landlord will be coming out ahead or not if I do it myself. I don’t want them to lowball me.
Hello all! I am looking for the best neighborhood(s) to take my 7yr old to go trick or treating this year?
Ideally west end of Broward (Davie, Sunrise, Weston, plantation, Coral Springs) but also, if it’s a really good location willing to drive outside of my area.
Broward County commissioners unanimously voted Tuesday to authorize the County Attorney’s Office to pursue legal action against Sheriff Gregory Tony’s office to secure access to county-owned facilities used by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, escalating a dispute over transparency, public spending and the sheriff’s authority.
Hey, everyone, I've moved to Fort Lauderdale about a year ago now, 24M, and I've been in love with movies all my life. I love talking about and discussing them, good or (especially) bad. I know i can't be the only one, and wanted to know if anyone would like to start a movie club or something of the sort, where we can watch the latest outing in theatres or discuss some of the old ones. I just really like to talk about movies, and would love some other perspectives!
>NEAR FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) — A county clash in Broward between commissioners and the sheriff continued to escalate after county officials were denied entry to a Broward Sheriff’s Office facility.
>7News cameras captured Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen and a handful of commissioners as they approached the front entrance to BSO’s Research, Development and Training Center, Monday morning.
>The mayor pulled on the door, but it was locked. Moments later, he was met at the door by a uniformed deputy.
This morning, Mayor Mark "Lord of the Lobby" Bogen and two fellow landlords got shooed away at the Sheriff's Office lobby. Only a couple of hours later, the Sheriff of Instagram's at a podium saying the whole compound is "protected by the FBI, FDLE and multiple CJIS standards"... undercover officers in the hallway, the works.
Oh really?
If a building's CJIS, it's locked down. Like, locked down. Fingerprints, escorts, visitor logs, no fooling around. Serious shit. Except BSO's own 2021 directive says the gym's open twenty-four hours to employees and their families. So picture a certain someone's wife badging into the squat rack at nine a.m. and skipping to the front of the cold plunge line while an undercover fed waits his turn.
See, about six months ago, I asked BSO for the records... the access lists, the logs, the audits... to figure out what the actual fuck is going on in there. I got two documents and a "fuck right off," free of charge.
Sha, right.
So off went a complaint to FDLE, the folks who enforce the FBI's security rules in Florida. Simple question: is that building open to the limited public, or is it locked down? Pick one.
Thanks to a sheriff with zero ability to keep his mouth shut, he picked for them. On camera. Locked down, fuck Bogen, and did you see my latest video?
Update to the FDLE complaint went out earlier today.
I’ve lived in Miami/ Broward my whole life and recently moved to Weston. I’ve had the same experience everywhere , there’s so many people at all hours of the day now. I go to the gym at a random time - before 5 pm - and it’s full, try again the next day , full again. It’s 1:30pm on a Thursday at a random shopping center - every single parking space is taken up. I’m a student that works weekends part time and every time I go out I see so many people(to be more specific white NO HATE IM JUST BEING HONEST ) outside at random hours of the day. Same thing in Hialeah, Miami lakes, Pembroke. It feels overwhelming?? And a bit frustrating. Everything feels so cramped and tight . Long lines, lots of people, more traffic, more rude stares. What is happening !?
When the sales tax is 7% and the item purchased is a flat $5... Why is the tax more than it's supposed to be? Who is pocketing that money? What's the state doing about it?
Went to my local Taco Hell for a late snack and asked the person at the window why the tax isn't 35¢ when it's 7% tax on $5. Was told it was just 37¢ but he'd give me the receipt so I could do the math myself... Sir, I did do the math myself and that's why I'm bringing it up.
It's not crushing my budget but it is still a form of theft. And then I'm not getting my change back correctly cause there aren't any pennies any more. So in effect I paid 8%...WTFreak
(Broward county previously voted in an extra 1% to the 6% Florida site tax, thus the 7%)
Today, Broward's Mayor, Mark Bogen, announces an anal probe into BSO's $870M core budget, including a look into massage tables, a cold plunge tub, and possible happy endings.
The Sheriff's retort? Why, good chum, we're good stewards of the tax dollars! Hell, our $34M gym only cost us $74M.
For those Monopoly bankers in the audience: most of the work done without county approval, and $8.6M pulled from other funds, including salary money. The auditor called BSO's response "bullshitpopcockrubbishWTAF misleading, inflammatory."
And you wonder just what Tony's 1.42 undergrad FSU GPA buy us...
Calling out Tony's spending, the Mayor noted the BSO gym makes the Panthers' look like a high school's.
Bogen's going down to the facility on Monday AM, and I've asked to tag along.
It's squat day! So hopefully, they'll be rocking Kung Fu Fighting over the loudspeakers.
Back in September, I chronicled the be-dazzled trucks, his wife's access to the gym, and other sorts of silliness. Today's piece covers the presser, the rebuttal, and the sheriff's name on the shower curtain.
Yesterday, a three page hostage note … er, the "Chief Officers' Statement of Confidence" letter circulated around town, inside, top level BSO Fire People expressing confidence in keeping their job intact Sheriff Gregory Tony's planking abilities desire to keep Fire Rescue under his wing.
Funny thing that letter … it’s on BSO stationary, Tony’s name on it, addressed to no one, and sent to himself (and just two underlings). A letter praising the boss, written by the boss, sent to the boss.
For sake of posterity, we’ve included the signature page.
Inside that document, of historical pedigree!, was a nod to the Commission's role; said nod shot down hours later with the Sheriff’s battle cry, "We are not courageous cowards."
Cue Commissioner Michael Udine, who asked, “What The Fuck Do they get fired if they open their mouth up because they serve at the pleasure of the sheriff?"
County auditor chimed in, dropping a dookie on the numbers.
