Letter to Candidates for IRC Sheriff – July 14, 2020

To the Candidates,  

Would you please answer the following questions at your earliest convenience?  I am deciding who to vote for in the Republican primary, and I will be making my choice public.  Your response will be a deciding factor.  

What is your position on the Sheriff’s involvement in drug trafficking, a fact which the State Attorney admitted in court in 2016?  

What actions are you taking or have you taken to shut it down?  

What are you doing to address the false arrests of Fred Luongo and others?  

What are you doing to address the killing of Alteria Woods, Susan Teel, Vincent Savastano, Byruss Green, Mitchell Martinez, and others at the hands of IRC deputies?  

What is your position on the Save Vero Beach sunshine requests?  Would you grant the requests as required by law, or would you continue to defend against the lawsuit?  

What is your position on the institutionalized graft in the Sheriff’s office, as exposed in the Adam Bailey case?  What are you doing to address this?  

What are you doing or have you done to stop law enforcement officers from falsely arresting or threatening to falsely arrest people for trespass, when they are in a public place such as a library, a park, a government office, a bank, or a store which is open to the public?  

Do you support police unions?  Please list all of your union memberships, present and past.  

Thanks,

Deborah Cooney