In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
FDEP Means "DON'T EXPECT PROTECTION."
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection Enforcement Manual contains a gap, one that shows FDEP has a deep credibility gap regarding criminal prosecution. The December 2003 version of Section 3.8 of the Enforcement Manual at the link below says only 17 words, in haec verba:
Identification and Referral of Potential Criminal Cases NOTE: This chapter is in the process of being updated.
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/legal/Enforcement/enforcement.htm
Six years later, the chapter has not been "updated" and FDEP rarely prosecutes polluters. So much for radical anti-regulatory Republican Governors JOHN EDWARD BUSH a/k/a "JEB BUSH" and CHARLES CRIST. You can count on Republicans to be shills and satraps serving polluters like our CITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
As my late friend David Thundershield Queen said it best, DEP stands for "Don't Expect Protection."
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