{"id":416974,"date":"2026-10-02T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416974\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:58:13","slug":"the-scoop-fri-oct-2-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416974\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Fri. Oct. 2, 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\/2026\/10\/1790963893_654_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-267668 size-267668 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Pinellas deputy Karl Gwynne arrested for allegedly misusing an automated license plate reader database<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced the arrest of Pinellas deputy Karl Gwynne who allegedly searched the automated license plate reader database about three hundred times searching for a romantic interest. Gualtieri maintains that the ALPR database does not have the ability to track people. Rather, it records a list of timestamped photographs that can be used to gather where a car has been over a period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime St. Petersburg home with deep connections to the arts and literary community is officially a local historic landmark<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-longtime-st-petersburg-home-with-deep-connections-to-the-city-s-arts-and-literary-community-is-officially-a-local-historic-landmarkyesterday-the-st-petersburg-city-council-voted-unanimously-to-designate-the-meinke-house-as-a-local-historical-landmark-the-home-sits-at-the-intersection-of-two-distinct-creative-legacies-with-architect-and-builder-of-the-home-mark-dixon-dodd-s-and-florida-poet-laureate-peter-meinke-and-his-wife-artist-and-illustrator-jeanne-meinke-the-house-exemplifies-the-traditions-of-a-cultural-city-of-the-arts\">The St. Petersburg City Council voted unanimously to designate the Meinke House as a local historical landmark. The house exemplifies the traditions of a cultural city of the arts. The home sits at the intersection of two distinct creative legacies, architect and builder Mark Dixon Dodd and Florida Poet Laureate Peter Meinke and his wife, artist and illustrator Jeanne Meinke.<\/p>\n<p>A Supreme Court decision removed federal protection from many wetlands, raising concerns about water quality in Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">As the election season approaches, environmentalist are urging voters to research candidates\u2019 water policies. Many wetlands no longer qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act. Following a 2023 Supreme Court ruling, wetlands generally must have a surface connection to a \u00a0protected waterway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Jaila Harrigan<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF anchors Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Megan Fair.<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Daria Mironova, Megan Fair, Luiza Medeiros de Campos, Hannah Lau Gleciano, 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 the News Service of Florida, the Associated Press, and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pinellas deputy Karl Gwynne arrested for allegedly misusing an automated license plate reader database Pinellas County Sheriff Bob&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[115856,1563,12585,16665,30415,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,4497,416,56779,417],"class_list":["post-416974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-clean-water-act","tag-environment","tag-historic-preservation","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-supreme-court","tag-the-scoop","tag-wetlands","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416974","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=416974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}