{"id":167593,"date":"2026-02-24T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167593\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:37:07","slug":"orange-county-mayor-gives-feds-deadline-to-resolve-reimbursement-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167593\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County mayor gives feds deadline to resolve reimbursement issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h911466-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings recently said the federal government is putting a burden on local governments by failing to adequately compensate them for costs associated with housing ICE detainees.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h911466-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">According to him, the federal government reimburses Orange County $88 per ICE detainee per day, while the cost to house them at the county jail is roughly $180 daily.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h911466-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Since August of 2025, Demings has sent two letters to the U.S. Marshals Service requesting to renegotiate their Intergovernmental Services Agreement, which includes reimbursement rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h911466-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">On Friday, Feb. 13, Demings sent a third letter to U.S. Grants Specialist Aisha Ogburn, requesting her immediate action to fairly resolve their contract negotiations by Friday, March 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h911466-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">If not, Orange County intends to conclude negotiations with the USMS, and will consider terminating their IGSA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h911466-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;My responsibility to the people of Orange County, Florida, is to ensure our citizens are fairly represented under the terms of our agreement with the federal government,&#8221; Demings wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings recently said the federal government is putting a burden on local governments by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-167593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167593","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=167593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}