{"id":181711,"date":"2026-03-07T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181711\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:56:07","slug":"council-president-says-inspector-general-is-looking-into-serious-allegations-related-to-jea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181711\/","title":{"rendered":"Council President says Inspector General is looking into \u2018serious allegations\u2019 related to JEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">City Council President Kevin Carrico has confirmed to News4JAX that the city\u2019s Inspector General is looking into \u201cserious allegations\u201d against JEA, adding a new layer to weeks of public sparring between the utility and City Hall.<br \/>\n\u201cAs I have said for several weeks, there is a crisis of confidence at JEA. I am very concerned to hear that the Inspector General is now looking into serious allegations related to the utility,\u201d Carrico said. \u201cThe people of Jacksonville deserve transparency, accountability, and clear answers, and the Council will be carefully reviewing the Inspector General\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS City Council President Kevin Carrico has confirmed to News4JAX that the city\u2019s Inspector General is looking into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[832,78811,116,118,117,501,5896],"class_list":["post-181711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-city-council","tag-inspector-general","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jea","tag-kevin-carrico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181711","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=181711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}