MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) – With spring break right around the corner, authorities across South Florida are putting the focus on safety, and officials in Miami Beach and putting the focus on fitness..<\/p>\n
With their current campaign, the city is saying goodbye and good riddance to spring break, which they likened to a toxic ex.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve divorced spring break; the spring break of the past is gone. We will never, ever go back there,\u201d said Miami Beach Police Chief Wayne Jones. \u201cThis is a new era for this police department and for the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year, the city\u2019s message is \u201cWake Up to a New March,\u201d while shifting their focus to fitness.<\/p>\n
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner stressed they still want tourists to visit their city, as long as they do so responsibly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhereas in the past, we had residents who would literally leave during certain weekends in March, are now staying home enhoying out beautiful city,\u201d said Meiner.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are making a deliberate pivot, away from a party-centric spring break of the past and towards a month that celebrates all that Miami Beach has to offer: fitness, wellness and a healthier, more elevated experience here on the Beach,\u201d said Miami Beach City Manager Eric Carpenter.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s crackdown campaigns have seemingly been working over the past few years. In 2025, officials reported fewer crowds, less chaos and no shootings, a stark contrast to past years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have to go too far back in time to remember. In 2022, we had we had five shootings during sping break. In 2023, we had two fatalities, and in 2024 and 2025, we had no related incidences,\u201d said Meiner.<\/p>\n
This year, the city will instead be breaking a sweat during spring break, hosting several fitness events like HYROX<\/a>, Wodapalooza<\/a> and a marathon.<\/p>\n At the same time, the city is also ramping up security measures, like license plate readers, increasing parking garage prices, DUI enforcement and security checkpoints at beach accesses.<\/p>\n Meiner said keeping businesses up and running safely is a delicate balance.<\/p>\n Certain businesses reached out to us with suggestions. Many businesses thanked us for the measures we took, because it created a lever of order, and they were busy and didn\u2019t have to deal with stampedes in their businesses where people [were] literally flipping over tables and not paying,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was real, and that was happening in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n North of the county line, officials in Fort Lauderdale said they will be increasing security. Nevertheless. they have a different message for spring breakers<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019t\u2019s really important that college kids know that Fort Lauderdale is putting out the welcome mat for you to come here, enjoy,\u201d said Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis.<\/p>\n For Miami Beach\u2019s list of spring rules and regulations, click here<\/a>. For spring break details in Fort Lauderdale, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n \tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) – With spring break right around the corner, authorities across South Florida are putting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-167263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167263","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=167263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}