JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 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 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":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Tuesday a lawsuit against the City of Jacksonville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,115515,28,8114,348,115514,116,351,115358,118,117,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-269050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-city-of-jacksonville-illegal-gun-registry","tag-florida","tag-florida-attorney-general-james-uthmeier","tag-fox30","tag-gun-registry-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-gun-registry","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269050","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=269050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}