{"id":14084,"date":"2025-06-25T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/14084\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:37:12","slug":"brentwood-residents-sue-city-of-jacksonville-over-new-medical-examiners-office-thats-near-a-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/14084\/","title":{"rendered":"Brentwood residents sue City of Jacksonville over new medical examiner\u2019s office that\u2019s near a school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 A group of Brentwood residents is suing the City of Jacksonville over the new medical examiner\u2019s office that\u2019s near a school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/04\/11\/brentwood-residents-protest-at-city-hall-demands-morgue-facility-be-repurposed-to-benefit-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/04\/11\/brentwood-residents-protest-at-city-hall-demands-morgue-facility-be-repurposed-to-benefit-community\/\"><b>Brentwood residents protest at city hall; Demands medical examiner facility be repurposed to benefit community<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Metro Gardens Neighborhood Association, led by Lydia Bell, has long said the facility doesn\u2019t belong in the neighborhood. It\u2019s being built near the KIPP V.O.I.C.E. Academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The group also alleges that the city didn\u2019t tell the community that it intended to build the facility and that it violated city ordinances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The group said that homes near morgues typically lose property value due to stigma and environmental risks. The injunction seeks that the facility be repurposed into something that \u201cbenefits, rather than harms and irreparably harms the Brentwood community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Back in April, residents protested at city hall, asking that the facility be turned into a pharmacy, urgent care, or a tutoring center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Read the full lawsuit below.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A group of Brentwood residents is suing the City of Jacksonville over the new medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,9437,8314,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-14084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brentwood","10":"tag-duval-county","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114745222611559101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}