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Tallahassee Democrat 

Leon County will ask for state, federal funding for local projects 

Leon County commissioners will task their lobbyists to ask the state Legislature and federal government to help fund a number of ongoing county projects, including Welaunee Boulevard and the Airport Gateway. 

 

Miami’s County News 

PortMiami welcomes record-breaking number of cruise passengers in FY ’24  

PortMiami, the “Cruise Capital of the World,” achieved its highest-ever cruise passenger total of 8,233,056 travelers in Fiscal Year 2024, which started Oct. 1, 2023 and ended Sept. 30, 2024. 

 

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Miami Herald 

These Bay Area counties will launch mental health ‘CARE’ courts. Can they help solve homelessness?  

As communities across the Bay Area continue to grapple with jarring scenes of human suffering on the street, counties in the region are rolling out new state-mandated mental health courts aimed at getting people with serious psychiatric disorders into treatment and housing. 

  

Route-Fifty 

A new take on robocop? Georgia lawmakers look into ways AI can improve public safety  

With artificial intelligence rapidly advancing, what public safety jobs can look like is changing quickly, sometimes in a seriously sci-fi kind of way.