Tag: Polk County Florida

Sweep Rounds Up Probation-Breaking Sex Offenders in Polk County

November 4, 2022
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd treated 14 registered sex offenders to his “Cross Bar Hotel” during a month-long Halloween initiative the sheriff’s office announced on Nov. 1. During October, the operation conducted by Polk County’s Special Victims Unit, Crime Suppression Teams, and the Florida Department of Corrections and Probation, aimed to make sure…

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Florida Citizen Group Leading Charge Against Sexually Explicit Library Books in Schools

September 8, 2022
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A Florida group isn’t giving up on their fight to stop the Polk County Public Schools from allowing students access to sexually explicit books in school libraries. County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF) filed an appeal with the Polk County School Board on Sept. 6 over “pornographic” titles available to middle and high school children that…

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Sixteen Book Titles up for Ban consideration in Florida Schools

February 4, 2022
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–Sixteen books in Polk County school libraries have been pulled from the shelves and “quarantined” because the content was considered “obscene, or harmful to children.” Polk County Public Schools (PCPS) administrators spent the morning of Jan. 25 collecting books from media centers throughout the county after County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF), a conservative…

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Florida Sheriff Grady Judd: The Man Behind the Badge

November 30, 2021
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He is known as “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” but Sheriff Grady Judd, of Polk County, Florida, said he is “tougher on himself” than anyone he has ever arrested. “I hold myself to a higher standard,” Judd said in a recent interview at the Polk County Jail. “I always said that I never wanted to do anything…

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