{"id":168609,"date":"2026-02-25T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168609\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:07","slug":"local-police-grants-for-immigration-enforcement-get-cabinet-ok-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168609\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Police Grants for Immigration Enforcement Get Cabinet OK \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2026%2F02%2F25%2Flocal-police-grants-for-immigration-enforcement-get-cabinet-ok%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Local+Police+Grants+for+Immigration+Enforcement+Get+Cabinet+OK https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/02\/25\/local-police-grants-for-immigration-enforcement-get-cabinet-ok\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Cabinet, sitting as the State Board of Immigration, on Tuesday approved approximately $40 million in grants for immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>It was a last-minute drop of millions of dollars compared to the previous funding request of $53 million attached to the Cabinet agenda.<\/p>\n<p>State Board of Immigration Enforcement Executive Director Anthony Coker told Cabinet members the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office would be modified \u201cto include two years of equipment\u201d for approximately $9.9 million instead of the original request of $23 million.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County changed a six-year contract for body cameras with AI translation, an $18 million contract, to a two-year contract costing $4.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Of the $40 million approved on Tuesday, about $14 million of the funds were for new awards, Coker said, and the remaining $26 million was to go to agencies who were amending their requests and asking for more money.<\/p>\n<p>The state has set aside $250 million to reimburse local law enforcement for purchases related to illegal immigration enforcement and has already approved tens of millions of dollars in requests.<\/p>\n<p>That money has been earmarked for body cameras, license plate readers, surveillance towers, software, 287(g) training and bed space for detained immigrants in jail, among other requests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2026%2F02%2F25%2Flocal-police-grants-for-immigration-enforcement-get-cabinet-ok%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Local+Police+Grants+for+Immigration+Enforcement+Get+Cabinet+OK https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/02\/25\/local-police-grants-for-immigration-enforcement-get-cabinet-ok\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; By The News Service of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Cabinet, sitting as the State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-168609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168609","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=168609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}