{"id":188396,"date":"2026-03-12T08:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:50:12","slug":"mayor-deegan-calls-jea-investigative-committee-a-spectacle-as-council-expands-probe-beyond-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188396\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Deegan calls JEA investigative committee a \u2018spectacle\u2019 as council expands probe beyond audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan criticized a new Jacksonville City Council special investigative committee targeting the city-owned utility JEA, calling it a \u201cpolitically charged\u201d overreach.<br \/>\nCity Council President Kevin Carrico announced the committee on Wednesday after the City of Jacksonville Office of Inspector General (OIG) asked the council for assistance related to allegations involving JEA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan criticized a new Jacksonville City Council special investigative committee targeting the city-owned utility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5890,116,118,117,501,5896],"class_list":["post-188396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-donna-deegan","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\/188396","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=188396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}