{"id":310527,"date":"2026-06-17T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310527\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:22:02","slug":"the-scoop-wed-june-17-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310527\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Wed. June 17, 2026 Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-261751 size-261751 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County Sheriff at the center of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleging wrongful arrest due to police facial recognition software<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Dillon was accused of asking a girl under 12 to leave a Jacksonville Beach McDonald\u2019s with him in 2024. Two Jacksonville officers used surveillance software managed by the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office to identify him as the subject. According to the lawsuit, Dillon has never been to Jacksonville Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates want to turn the Morgan apartments in Pinellas Point into an affordable housing project<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Pinellas activist organizations want to turn a struggling apartment complex into public housing.<\/p>\n<p>Man killed while piloting small plane in Polk County<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to authorities, Michael Robinson was killed Monday evening. <\/p>\n<p>Eight local organizations launch campaign to educate Tampa residents on the dangers of rising temperatures<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer is almost here, and so is intense heat. WMNF\u2019s Luiza Campos reports on staying safe in the heat and warning signs of heat exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed all detainees have been transferred from Alligator Alcatraz<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson says ICE and the state of Florida moved people from there to other facilities for their safety due to hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Maeleigh Fricke<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli.<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Sofia Caballero, Daria Mironova, Megan Fair, Luiza Medeiros de Campos, Hanna Lau, Joeniyah Carter, Jaelin Diehl.<br \/>Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3<\/a><br \/>The Scoop logo by Robin Milcowitz \/ Greener Pixels \/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenerpixels.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greenerpixels.com<\/a>\u00a0\/ WMNF<\/p>\n<p>information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pinellas County Sheriff at the center of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleging wrongful arrest due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1571,3120,3753,5885,6121,23986,1644,23071,7206,1841,32495,833,16665,30415,3152,1911,36512,2075,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-310527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-affordable-housing","tag-alligator-alcatraz","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-criminal-justice","tag-global-warming","tag-housing","tag-ice-detention","tag-immigrant","tag-immigration","tag-justice-system","tag-lawsuit","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-pinellas-county-sheriff","tag-polk-county","tag-state-government","tag-summer","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310527","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=310527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}