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Resident asks Orange Park council to add context to law-enforcement memorial signage
Summary
A resident, Patricia Colbert, told the Orange Park Town Council that current memorial signage for law-enforcement officers lacks information about who the officers were and their significance, and she asked the council to add identifying and contextual details.
Patricia Colbert, a resident who said she was speaking on her family's behalf, told the Orange Park Town Council that the town's signage honoring law-enforcement officers is missing basic contextual information.
"We need to have some information so that when people see the sign, they can find out about who they were and what they did and why they were important to this community," a committee member said during public comment, noting casualty figures referenced for Morinova Spring. Colbert identified her father as Robert L. Hunter and said the lack of descriptive information left a gap in how the community would understand the memorial.
The request centered on adding identifying details to existing signs so residents and visitors could learn the names and contributions of the officers being honored. The transcript includes figures referenced by a speaker — "109 officers killed in 2025 and 254 officers 2026" — presented as context for why signage should explain who is commemorated; the figures were quoted by a speaker and are reported here as spoken in the meeting.
Council members did not record a formal decision on signage in the provided excerpt. The public comment closed with Colbert urging the council to include family and historical information on town memorials so the significance of the honored officers is clear to the community.
