{"id":298867,"date":"2026-06-07T02:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298867\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:33:20","slug":"jacksonville-police-chief-is-finalist-for-same-role-in-boca-raton-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298867\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police chief is finalist for same role in Boca Raton, FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BOCA RATON, F.L. (WITN) &#8211; An Eastern Carolina police chief is in the running for the same role in a Florida city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville Police Chief Jarad Phelps is one of two finalists for police chief in Boca Raton, Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city said a national search netted 105 applications, with 77 applicants meeting the job requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Assistant Chief of Police Nicholas R. Augustine of the Montgomery County Department of Police in Maryland is the other finalist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city says there were many Florida applicants, but the national search drew interest from candidates in 27 states, Puerto Rico and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city says it will be conducting additional interviews with the candidates, who will spend time in Boca Raton to learn more about the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A final selection will be made after that.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOCA RATON, F.L. (WITN) &#8211; An Eastern Carolina police chief is in the running for the same role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-298867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298867","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=298867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}