Live updates: Police use tear gas on pro-Palestinian protesters at USF, report ⁦Divya Kumar⁩ ⁦Justin Garcia⁩ ⁦Sam Ogozalek⁩ tampabay.com/news/breaking-…

New story with Justin Garcia:

Last month, the union president for Tampa firefighters was arrested in St. Pete, caught urinating in a downtown parking garage.

“Do you know who I am?” he asked officers.

“I work with you guys,” he added.

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After Tampa Bay Times reported that Florida Republican Party Executive Director George Riley had trashed a hotel room while his family searched for him, the party has named an interim replacement while Riley seeks help, a draft email shared with me says
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NEW: While his family searched for him, a Florida Republican Party leader was trashing a hotel room, which he had urinated and vomited in 'throughout' a sheriff report I obtained says. During a phone call, George Riley said he's 'deeply sorry'

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Thank you Justin Garcia Tampa Bay Times for speaking to our multimedia reporting class USF St. Petersburg - you inspired young minds to follow in your very impressive footsteps!

Large corporations are evicting tenants at higher than average rates, court data shows.

Teghan Simonton and I followed one family in real time as they were forced to vacate their home. Read more in the fourth installment of Buying up the Bay

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Is it safe or even a good idea for the City of Tampa to dye the Hillsborough River green for #StPatricksDay ? There is a debate via Max Chesnes Justin Garcia Tampa Bay Times Things to Do by Tampa Bay Times Business by Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com/news/tampa/202…

NEW: >50% of FL manatees rely on warm water from power plants to survive the winter.

That means moving to cleaner energy to combat climate change could leave manatees out in the cold. Officials warn this must be fixed to avoid 'catastrophic losses.'
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Tampa's fire chief called cops on reporter Justin Garcia for asking to view public records.

An outrageous abuse of power that in the past might’ve been seen as an isolated incident, unlikely to reoccur. Not so much these days. tampabay.com/news/tampa/202…

Tampa fire chief ordered police called on a local journalist asking for records (Keep on keepin’ on, ⁦Justin Garcia⁩) tampabay.com/news/tampa/202…

This is bananas. Good work, Justin Garcia and Mark Katches.

My colleague Justin Garcia had the police called on him for requesting public records. Happy Sunshine week! tampabay.com/news/tampa/202…

Ahead of Sunshine Week, I wrote about how Tampa’s fire department handled a recent request for public records. They called the cops on us. tampabay.com/news/tampa/202…

I recently had the cops called on me after I requested to inspect public records in person at the Tampa fire rescue headquarters. Mark Katches wrote this column about how it all went down. And my long hair made it into the story... Tampa Bay Times
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NEW: For months, Florida knew the groundwater beneath a women's prison was contaminated with PFAS chemicals from a nearby firefighting college

But the state didn't test the prison's drinking water supply 1/
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NEW: Timothy Burke Tim Burke turned himself in today and was charged with 14 federal crimes related to alleged computer hacks at Fox News. He heads to court this afternoon where he is expected to make bond

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New: Hillsborough sheriff deputy Charity Arthur told internal affairs that she afraid her ex-husband, a major, was going to kill her after years of abuse, docs show. But he wasn't investigated. She was instead reprimanded and demoted, a lawsuit says
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ICYMI: One concern about FL's renewable natural gas bill is that Floridians could pay for building these facilities, but shareholders would reap profits from them.

One enviro lawyer said he hopes policymakers clarify to avoid that 'messed-up situation'
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A heckuva story from Justin Garcia and Olivia George: A Tampa firefighter decried racism. Now, he’s been fired for forgery. Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com/news/tampa/202…

NEW: Last June, a Tampa firefighter made headlines speaking out against racism in city ranks.

Justin Garcia & I obtained records that shed light on what happened next.

This week, he was fired for lying about his paramedic training attendance.

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