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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Tuesday a lawsuit against the City of Jacksonville for a list of gun owners who entered city buildings it kept for two years.<\/p>\n
Through the lawsuit, Uthmeier is seeking a $5 million civil penalty.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Uthmeier announced the lawsuit in a video on X, posted with the caption, \u2033We are taking the City of Jacksonville to court for knowingly and willfully keeping an illegal gun registry in violation of Florida law.”<\/p>\n Action News Jax first revealed<\/a> the existence of a list of more than 100 gun owners who entered city buildings while armed over a two-year period last May.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n The revelation resulted in a criminal investigation that concluded late last year.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n No criminal charges were filed as a result of that investigation.<\/p>\n In January, Uthmeier announced his office was investigating the list<\/a>. In March, Action News Jax told you that Uthmeier would likely be taking the City to court<\/a> and seeking a $5 million fine.<\/p>\n Action News Jax is reaching out to city leaders and will have much more on this story beginning on CBS47 and FOX30 Action News Jax at 5.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Tuesday a lawsuit against the City of Jacksonville for a list…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9024,7912,65235,116,118,117,4260],"class_list":["post-269029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-city-of-jacksonville","tag-florida-attorney-general","tag-gun-owners","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-james-uthmeier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269029","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=269029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}