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Council approves ordinance enabling JSO to acquire mobile fingerprint scanners amid heavy public comment
Summary
The council passed an ordinance authorizing Jacksonville Sheriff's Office access to mobile fingerprinting devices and related enforcement provisions after heated public comment and a substitute amendment that narrowed the original draft.
The Jacksonville City Council approved ordinance 20-25-0147 — a measure to fund and equip the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office with additional mobile fingerprinting devices and related enforcement provisions — after lengthy public comment that split neighborhood groups, immigrant-rights advocates and law-enforcement supporters.
After a series of committee amendments and substitute language adopted on the floor, the council passed the ordinance as amended (final recorded vote: 12 yeas, 5 nays). The bill’s final…
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