*NEW UPDATE* – we spoke to Marty Kiar, outgoing Mayor of Broward County, at around 1:00 PM. Marty had spoken with Alphonso Jefferson, the county liaison to the courthouse, who stated Monica Hofheinz had received authority from Peter Weinstein to start moving SAO lawyers into the Law Library before consulting with the County. It is unknown at this time if Weinstein was aware of the ordinance mandating the Law Library when he made his decision.
Furthermore, Broward County Ordinance Sec. 19-6, in italics below, seems to indicate the Chief Judge may have overstepped his authority …
A committee to be known as the Broward County Law Library Committee shall be composed of a circuit judge residing in Broward County, who shall be chairman, and four (4) practicing attorneys who are members of the Broward County Bar Association. The said circuit judge and attorneys shall be designated from time to time by the Broward County Bar Association, and notice of such designation given to the County Commission of Broward County. The said law library committee shall have full authority to prescribe and enforce rules and regulations as to the use, maintenance and operation of said library. The clerk of the circuit court shall be ex officio secretary to the committee. The law library committee shall have the sole and absolute authority to select the law books and periodicals to be purchased for the Broward County Law Library. The law library funds shall be expended only for the purpose of procuring, equipping and maintaining the law library for public use and the same is hereby made a county purpose. The law library committee shall conduct, maintain, manage and make all policy decisions for the Broward County Law Library. All purchases made by said committee shall not be subject to the restrictions placed upon county purchases by general or special laws, and it shall not be necessary to advertise for bids or to secure bids for purchases made by said committee.
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*UPDATE* – an SAO source says employees have been given the option of moving to the 110 Tower or the Law Library, and that the Law Library should remain open, but we’re still waiting for confirmation from County officials …
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We’re told the current Law Library may be a goner, at least temporarily, in order to accommodate SAO personnel currently housed in the old courthouse, until the new building opens. SAO Director Monica Hofheinz has reportedly received authorization for the takeover, but has not returned a call seeking confirmation at this time.
Broward County Ordinance Sec. 19-1, in italics below, would have to be suspended. It is unknown at this time whether the public will have access to a pared down law library during any proposed move …
Sec. 19-1: The establishment and maintenance of a county law library in the court house at the county seat of Broward County, Florida, is hereby declared to be desirable, a public need, and a general county purpose; that the purchase of law books, legal periodicals, and the continuation of law books and legal periodicals for placement in said county law library, and the maintenance of said county law library, shall be a general county purpose.
DEVELOPING …
SAO SECRETARIES ARE PEOPLE TOO
MOVE EVERYONE MR. SATZ
People? There’s no more Dept. of “personal”.
You are not a person, because Its human resources now.
You’re an expendable and replaceable resource.
Dept. of Personal v. Human Resources.
The language creates the behaviors, and not the other way around.
Don’t take this personal, but it Department of Personnel.
When you’re attempting to correct one’s spelling, you may want to make sure you’re using correct grammar.
F y. Corrupt, worthless broward county. You are an embarrasment as usual
Shelia Alu for State Attorney… exploit the sick while you can. I would have guessed Silber would have been signing up courthouse employees by now for a class action suit. I guess after his last foray into civil law, suing jaab and losing, he will just get the free media out of it. Worked with Perazza, let Eric do all the work and Brian gets a piece of the credit posting stuff on FB and his website.
I wouldn’t hire Silber to clean my toilet. He and Brad Cohen should start dating. Love at first bite ! LOL
I’d move all these slackers and whiners right to the back of the unemployment line !
Silber is the new “has been”
This is singularly the biggest crock of bunk I’ve ever heard. Coughing and rolling around n the floor while she’s choking and breaking out in rashes ??? What kind of nutjobs are working in the State Attorney’s Office anyway ? Put them in tents in the judge’s parking lot if they can’t wait for the new courthouse to open. But for the sake of any credibility these whiners may have left, cut the chit. The only ones that look stupid are all these wheezing, whimpering whimps!
Baby Lynch is hedging his bets. Telling Tuter, Rodriguez and Horowitz he is supporting all. Controversy has always surrounded Daddy Lynch and now Baby Lynch is creating problems pretending to support all three. LOL . I worked with Baby Lynch at the PD’s and he was always a crying about jail visits and that’s why Howard gave Baby Lynch a spanking.
YOU COULD BARELY FILL A THIMBLE WITH THE BRAIN POWER OF BABY LYNCH
BABY LYNCH = BABY BRAIN. WAIT & SEE. LOL
Rodriguez no chance. Horowitz left his heart in Vegas. And then you have Tooty …
Laughable enough he’s Circuit. Worse that he’s playing Daddy’s old game.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
The PDO has a lot of empty office space to fill.
Alu can have an office down the hall. Alix is alright. Only the honest ones are welcome. That’s about 20 people. Clearly there is some space at the PDO even if administration is pretending otherwise.
But NOT sharing space with the lying, Brady hiding, would sell out mom if it meant Satz will like them more SAO types. EVERYONE knows who those people are.
I will share an office with Alix! !
The PDs office with all the empty offices and more on the way could easily bunk those from the SAs office needing to be moved before the new courthouse is ready. Just wall off half the office and there would still be enough room.
http://jacksonville.com/news/2016-11-17/questions-abound-death-penalty-s-future-30-cases-pending-4th-circuit
If you can’t try em, win em by kissing ass?
Didn’t accomplish much with Rosenthal when she tucked tail and disappeared. Another Broward judge who thought she’d sleep drive her way to retirement.
IS IT TRUE SPRINKLES MEDIATION IS DONATING THE OFFICE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO DADDY LYNCH?
Didn’t have much to begin with. Besides, he’s got the whole clan turning a shekel ! Lol. Being off the public dole requires certain adjustments.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/502394476/watch-bob-weir-cover-merle-haggards-mama-tried
Weinstein got SatzSmacked!
Mike is the only one who cares.
THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY The BROWARD SHERIFF’S OFFICE THAT MADE SUCH STUPID MISTAKES
I was a great ASA,
Got cancer because of the mold,
Survived
Satz did nothing until there was a revolt.
Poor Theresa, she through she would have another clear shot at SAO in 4 years.
I look forward next SAO run.
Although with the current political trend, I think she’ll need to revamp her platform. With Teresa, I don’t think any adjustment will be a problem.
Political winds change, and history repeats for a reason…..
https://youtu.be/y-Yszp3SmxE
Alu doesnt have the juice. No way Jose. She can chase down mold problems instead.
The man who President-elect Donald Trump may nominate as the 84th attorney general of the United
States was once rejected as a federal judge over allegations he called a black attorney “boy,” suggested a white lawyer working for black clients was a race traitor, joked that the only issue he had
with the Ku Klux Klan was their drug use, and referred to civil rights
groups as “un-American” organizations trying to “force
civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems behind them.”
The article and the hearing transcripts:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-racist-remarks_us_582cd73ae4b099512f80c0c2
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/11/17/state-attorneys-office-orders-150-sick-courthouse-employees-to-new-space/
This is outrageous!
You can just suspend a county ordinance when it suits you?
Guess that means that laws are merely suggestions?
A lot of people acting as their own attorneys are going to start backing up the 4th district with appeals.
Judges love to tell them they have access to the law library.
Also what about criminal defendants who chose to represent themselves?
Will the sheriff have to transport prisoners to the different library branches to do research?
The County Commission will do this and again tell the sheriff :
it’s his problem now while already criticizing him for courthouse security problems when he’s stated before he needs more money for these concerns.
They have the nerve to fund YAA and pass the blame to him?
We need the Feds to come into this county and drop a big net over it like in Dade with Op. Court broom!
This is meant in fun but are we the only ones thinking that this person needs to get a life?
There should be enough collected now.
This is not surprising that the State would want to stop poor people from accessing the legal tools in a library to protect themsleves from wrongful convicters at the State.