JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 There\u2019s a new push to ensure any new Duval County Jail doesn\u2019t end up in Jacksonville\u2019s historic Black neighborhoods. <\/p>\n
The planned council resolution comes in response to concerns raised by community members after they felt their efforts to prevent the construction of a medical examiner\u2019s office in Brentwood fell on deaf ears. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe concerns that we\u2019re hearing from members of the public who are saying we\u2019ve got a lot of old neighborhoods in this city and no one would have expected a medical examiner\u2019s building to be built in one of those old neighborhoods, well now we\u2019re just making it known, like do not build a jail in one of these old redlined neighborhoods,\u201d said Councilmember Jimmy Peluso (D-District 7).<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Peluso is working on the resolution, which he hopes will give community members living in historically marginalized areas of the city some assurances that they don\u2019t need to worry.<\/p>\n His yet-to-be-filed proposal would put the council on the record, committing the areas and neighborhoods highlighted in red and yellow on this 1934 redlining map of the city<\/a> would not be considered as the new jail\u2019s future home.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd we took that map because it was an easy one to pull out that we know probably correlates with race and disenfranchised communities,\u201d said Peluso.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Councilmember Ron Salem (R-Group 2 At-Large), who has been deeply involved in discussions surrounding the new jail, said he wants to know more about the proposal before committing to support it.<\/p>\n \u201cI just think it\u2019s a bit premature,\u201d said Salem.<\/p>\n But he said he doubts any residential neighborhood would be a viable option for the jail in the first place, given he estimates it will likely have a footprint of between 100 and 200 acres.<\/p>\n \u201cTo try to get that type of site is gonna require it to be probably not in the core area of Jacksonville,\u201d said Salem.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Still, Peluso argued, given the frustration communities like Brentwood have already faced, making the commitment early would tamp down fears moving forward.<\/p>\n \u201cBy passing this, we kind of avoid that conversation because now we\u2019re actively saying, nope, don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not even going to be considered,\u201d said Peluso.<\/p>\n Peluso is holding a meeting on Friday with community groups and leaders to start conversations and get feedback about his proposal. <\/p>\n He said he expects to formally file his resolution after the new year.<\/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 Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 There\u2019s a new push to ensure any new Duval County Jail doesn\u2019t end up in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,19602,639,969,43596,116,118,117,971,970,10417,18639,43598,634,19610,43597,18643,10420],"class_list":{"0":"post-77630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-brentwood","10":"tag-duval_county","11":"tag-jack","12":"tag-jack_state","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-news","16":"tag-jake","17":"tag-jake_stoan","18":"tag-jake_stowan","19":"tag-jimmy_peluso","20":"tag-lavilla","21":"tag-local","22":"tag-moncrieff","23":"tag-newtown","24":"tag-peluso","25":"tag-ron_salem"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77630","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=77630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}