{"id":151825,"date":"2026-02-11T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/151825\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:36:11","slug":"blaise-ingoglia-proposes-halo-act-protections-for-federal-agents-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/151825\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaise Ingoglia proposes ‘Halo Act’ protections for federal agents in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia<\/a> distributed reimbursements to a half-dozen law enforcement agencies for their immigration enforcement work while also announcing he wants more protection for federal partners.<\/p>\n

Ingoglia said he drafted proposed legislation that would extend the state\u2019s \u201cHalo Act<\/a>\u201d to federal officers who operate in Florida. The halo law took effect last year and requires bystanders and protesters to stay at least 25 feet away from police and first responders when they respond to a scene of a crime or incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese same protections should extend to our federal law enforcement,\u201d Ingoglia said in a news conference. \u201cYou will not be able to approach and film. You will not be able to approach and harass. \u2026 We are not Minnesota. When we say we protect law enforcement officers, we mean all law enforcement officers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ingoglia said his proposed change to the law would cover federal agents such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, who are often at the forefront of efforts to detain undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n

At the same news conference Wednesday, Ingoglia issued reimbursement checks totaling $1.78 million combined to six local law enforcement agencies that have committed personnel to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will always stand with our law enforcement partners to make sure you are given respect,\u201d Ingoglia said.<\/p>\n

The federal funding is distributed through the\u00a0Florida State Board of Immigration Enforcement<\/a>, which applies for the reimbursements. Ingoglia is a member of that Board, along with Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis, Attorney General\u00a0James Uthmeier\u00a0and Agriculture Commissioner\u00a0Wilton Simpson.<\/p>\n

Ingoglia has distributed several immigration reimbursement<\/a> checks to multiple local law enforcement departments in Florida in the past year. Here is the info on the latest round of checks:<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Flagler County Sheriff\u2019s Office received $725,874.50.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Volusia County Corrections Department received $505,789.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 The Volusia County Sheriff\u2019s Office received $334,262.30.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Daytona Beach Police Department received $133,721.30.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety received $53,740.82<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Holly Hill Police Department received $32,468.83.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia distributed reimbursements to a half-dozen law enforcement agencies for their immigration enforcement work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2855,2856,73252,73253,73254,28620,28,30,29,73255,34180,73256,73257,4260,412,73258,14227,9962],"class_list":["post-151825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-blaise-ingoglia","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-daytona-beach-police-department","tag-daytona-beach-shores-department-of-public-safety","tag-federal-agents","tag-flagler-county-sheriffs-office","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-state-board-of-immigration-enforcement","tag-halo-act","tag-holly-hill-police-department","tag-immigration-reimbursement","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-ron-desantis","tag-volusia-county-corrections-department","tag-volusia-county-sheriffs-office","tag-wilton-simpson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}