1. "COMMANDER" CHARLES MULLIGAN is controversial St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's brother-in-law, who may be seen online in 2013 PBS documentary, "A Death in St. Augustine," helping Sheriff SHOAR conceal documents on September 2, 2010 homicide of Michelle O'Connell from The New York Times and PBS Frontline.
2. No mention of DROP program in article. Why?
3. No mention of Michelle O'Connell case in 248 word story. Why?
4. This fluffy article has a byline, but it needed critical thinking skills and enough words to tell the story of "COMMANDER" CHARLES MULLIGAN's "service." It reads like a press release.
5. The British say a diplomat is a person sent abroad to lie for his country. That's what PIOs do.
6. It is a conflict of interest for the PIO to be the Sheriff's brother-in-law. Enough.
7. We need reporters to ask questions and demand answers -- not take dictation, like amenuenses, allowing unaccountable elected and unelected officials to get away with murder (both figuratively and literally).
8. Officer-involved domestic violence, officer-involved shootings, financial flummery and chicanery at the St. Johns County Sheriff's office are deserving of much better coverage by the St. Augustine Record.
9. That won't happen until you stop taking press releases as if they were holy writ. We need longer articles, more investigative reporting, and an indefatigable willingness on the part of SAR reporters to report "without fear or favor."
10. The simple palpitating fact of the matter is that The New York Times and PBS Frontline had to do the work on the Michelle O'Connell case that the Record's former owners (MORRIS COMMUNICATIONS) REFUSED to allow its reporters to do, due to MORRIS' support for the ancien regime -- dull developer-driven/directed Republicans. Enough.
The New York Times
(News4Jax)
Mulligan retiring but will remain face of the Sheriff’s Office By Jared Keever
Posted Feb 15, 2018 at 7:06 PM
Updated at 6:28 AM
St. Augustine Record
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office isn’t necessarily getting a new face, but the face is getting a new set of clothes.
Although longtime Sheriff’s Office spokesman Cmdr. Chuck Mulligan retired this week after 30 years with the agency, he isn’t going anywhere.
He is staying on as a contractor to work “strictly media relations and communications,” he told The Record on Thursday.
“It’s a transition away from full-time law enforcement,” he said, and into “more of a civilian role within the agency.”
That means that when he returns to work on March 1 for the official start date in his new role, he will have traded in his traditional green uniform for civilian clothes.
Sheriff David Shoar said the decision to keep Mulligan on was an easy one, not only because of his experience in the position, but because he still needs the retired commander around to train up someone else in the agency to do the job. That, Shoar said, will take about a year.
“It’s not a job where you are out on patrol one day and the next day you are a [public information officer],” he said.
Mulligan said that the first 10 years he was with the agency he worked patrol and spent time on the SWAT and dive teams as well as the marine unit.
For the last 20 years he has been on the public relations side of the Sheriff’s Office.
“He’s really at the top of his game,” Shoar said.
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