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Body cameras will be required for Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies soon
ASCO said it will enforce consequences for any deputy who does not follow wearing policy. May 17, 2021 | 6:19am EDT The Alachua County Sheriff s Office on Southeast Hawthorn Road on Monday, May 3, 2021. (Photo by Mingmei Li)
Nearly half of all law enforcement agencies in the United States require officers to wear a body camera. Soon, the Alachua County Sheriff s Office will join them.
Last October, the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners approved $500,000 for body cameras, ACSO spokesperson Art Forgey said. Deputies who do not wear body cameras when they’re supposed to can face penalties. There is currently not a set date for the body camera requirement.
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Stories of trauma and pride: Alumni discuss desegregation and closure of E.E. Butler Instructors at E.E. Butler High School are seen in this photo provided by Newtown Florist Club.
Built as a brand-new high school for Gainesville s Black students in the 1960s, E.E. Butler High School was only around for seven years. But the excellence that was fostered and flourished in its hallways, athletic fields and classrooms still permeate 52 years after its closure.
The segregated American public school system was dismantled by the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.
However, the unintended consequences of school desegregation not only led to E.E. Butler’s closure in 1969 but a generation of Black students who experienced a traumatic loss of identity in their new schools, according to alumni from Butler, who shared their stories in a virtual forum hosted by the Newtown Florist Club on Monday, Feb. 22, as a