SHERIFF EMPLOYEE BILL JONES, SABCA PRESIDENT, SHOWN FAVORITISM BY ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH POLICE?

Thought-provoking letter re: St. Augustine Beach Police refusal to issue a ticket to St. Augustine Beach Civic Association President WILLIAM JONES, who works for Sheriff DAVID SHOAR.  Desuetude and favoritism in enforcement of the law violates equal protection and is unconstitutional.

This is also a security issue -- by placing his ID badge in the window of his vehicle, WILLIAM JONES created a potential risk that the card key would be stolen and used to effectuate a crime at the Courthouse, Sheriff's Office or Jail. Or any other County building. What do you reckon?


Left to right: SABCA President WILLIAM JONES, Commissioner ANDREA SAMUELS, et ux, SABCA VP ROBERT SAMUELS, tedious tendentious serial First Amendment violators.



Letter: Sheriff’s employee allowed illegal handicap parking
Merrill P. Roland St Johns County, FL

Dear Historic City News Editor: Yesterday afternoon I attended a Veterans Day event in St Augustine Beach. I properly parked my motorcycle, displaying a permanent handicap tag, in a marked handicap parking space at Lakeside Park. While looking for a parking space, I observed an SUV parked in the striped Handicap Parking zone where, according to Florida law, even a disabled person is prohibited from parking. After I found a legal space for my vehicle, I approached a uniformed St Augustine Beach police ofcer to report the violation of the posted space by the SUV. We observed that the SUV did not have a handicap tag nor did it have a properly displayed handicap placard. Instead, hanging from the windshield mirror, was a St Johns County Sheriff’s Ofce employee identication card displaying the name and photograph of William Jones; a civilian sheriff’s employee and ofcer in the St Augustine Beach Civic Association. While we stood in the parking lot, Jones approached and moved his vehicle in lieu of receiving a $200.00 uniform trafc citation. I have formally complained to Senior Internal Affairs detective Michael P. Kunovich at the St Johns County Sheriff’s Ofce, however, my past experience has been that Sheriff Shoar has protected Jones — going so far as to reverse the sustained ndings against Jones in a previous internal affairs investigation. I want to know why Sheriff Shoar would continue to provide immunity to Bill Jones given his growing list of complaints and internal affairs investigations. Almost anyone else would have been prosecuted.