{"id":380449,"date":"2026-08-25T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:18:09","slug":"after-tragic-drownings-councilman-seeks-safeguards-for-children-with-special-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380449\/","title":{"rendered":"After tragic drownings, councilman seeks safeguards for children with special needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0August 24, 2026 at 10:44 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 coHFxg kVVZcY\">Two children with autism have died after drowning in retention ponds in the same Jacksonville City Council district.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office says a 3-year-old girl died Monday morning after drowning in a nearby pond. Earlier this month, 7-year-old Chace Brown also died in a retention pond.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Councilman Reggie Gaffney Jr. is calling for change and renewed safety measures. Read the full story at the link in bio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOCAL NEWS Published:\u00a0August 24, 2026 at 10:44 PM Two children with autism have died after drowning in retention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[152692,152693,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-380449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-after-tragic-drownings","tag-councilman-seeks-safeguards-for-children-with-special-needs","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380449","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=380449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}