{"id":258661,"date":"2026-05-05T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258661\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:52:09","slug":"county-taskforce-looking-to-increase-boater-education-in-miami-dade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258661\/","title":{"rendered":"County taskforce looking to increase boater education in Miami-Dade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A commitment toward boating safety is gaining traction in Miami-Dade County as a panel pushes to implement a set of recommendations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Boater Safety and Bay Education Taskforce wrapped up a lengthy look at some of the issues that contribute to fatal boating accidents in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lucy Fernandez was a victim in one of those incidents on Labor Day weekend in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Her father, Andy Fernandez, now chairs the taskforce along with a number of other county leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The group highlighted a need for increased boater education, better legislation and waterway management to focus on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is expand boater education requirements, to see how we could expand it here at the local level where more boat operators are required to obtain more boater education requirements,\u201d said Fernandez. \u201cWe want to help obtain more funding for law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The information has officially been submitted to the county, and the next steps will be for county leaders to work to implement the recommendations as policy.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Terrell Forney\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7b28e33c-d75f-4d1a-87.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Terrell Forney<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A commitment toward boating safety is gaining traction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-258661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258661","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=258661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}