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."