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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday morning announced civil enforcement against the City of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
This is related to the list of gun owners who entered city buildings while armed over a two-year period.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Uthmeier said on X, \u201cJacksonville\u2019s firearm registry exposed law-abiding firearm owners to the very dangers that the prohibition was meant to prevent. My office is correcting @SAO4Florida\u2018s misinterpretation of the law and moving forward with civil enforcement against the City of Jacksonville.\u201d<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n Uthmeier also shared a copy of the letter he wrote to State Attorney Melissa Nelson, which states in part, \u201cThe fact remains that the city maintained a firearm registry of privately owned firearms for two years and your office\u2019s analysis of the relevant statute does not withstand scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n Action News Jax was first to discover in May<\/b><\/a> that the city had been keeping names and other personal information of people who entered city buildings while armed.<\/p>\n Since July 1st, 2023, state law has prevented local governments<\/b><\/a> from prohibiting legal gun owners from carrying concealed in government buildings.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax State and Local Government reporter Jake Stofan told you in January<\/b><\/a> that Uthmeier was investigating the matter.<\/p>\n This came after Nelson announced in December that no charges would be filed<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n Nelson\u2019s office concluded that poor communication and a directive from a mid-level city employee were to blame for the creation of a policy that documented the names and personal information of more than 100 gun owners who entered city buildings while carrying concealed over a two-year period.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday morning announced civil enforcement against the City of Jacksonville. This is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":627365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,178877,9961,267901,267902,3188,723,267900,7310,14521,84931,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-627364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-america","tag-city-buildings","tag-city-of-jacksonville","tag-firearm-owners","tag-firearm-registry","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-attorney-general","tag-jacksonville","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-melissa-nelson","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116160941585886700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627364","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=627364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}