{"id":176524,"date":"2026-03-03T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176524\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:17:19","slug":"state-takes-aim-at-jacksonville-over-gun-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176524\/","title":{"rendered":"State takes aim at Jacksonville over \u2018gun registry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9fddb603-5a97-47d4-9675-32ee934f3a2e\">Three months after State Attorney Melissa Nelson\u2019s office closed its investigation with no criminal charges, Florida Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridalegal.com\/ag-bio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Uthmeier<\/a> plans to initiate civil proceedings against the city of Jacksonville for making a list of people who carried guns into City Hall.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b806ddd2-116c-4f6f-9255-36f1541396d2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9f07e48069862b5bef898136a&amp;id=d7074fee95&amp;e=3affed45bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nelson\u2019s investigation<\/a> determined\u00a0that although security guards did violate Florida\u2019s \u201cgun registry\u201d prohibition when they recorded which visitors brought firearms into City Hall and the Yates Building in 2023, lack of oversight was to blame rather than criminal intent.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"de7efc6a-99d0-40d2-ad1f-c3450a9e53b6\">In a new letter to Nelson, Uthmeier says either city leaders were aware of the list or they \u201cfailed to adequately train and supervise their employees\u201d \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/05\/09\/desantis-wants-accountability-on-city-hall-gun-registry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bear responsibility<\/a> either way.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"cc014771-0ffa-42f2-8a5b-44dfa95a5479\">In a statement emailed to\u00a0Jacksonville Today, Mayor Donna Deegan\u2019s administration dismissed Uthmeier\u2019s pursuit as \u201cpolitically motivated deflections that waste taxpayer dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three months after State Attorney Melissa Nelson\u2019s office closed its investigation with no criminal charges, Florida Attorney General&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-176524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176524","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=176524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}