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    JACKSONVILLE SHERIFF'S OFFICE OLR LERT A April 9, 2024 Interfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation and Empowerment 2650 Park Street Jacksonville, Florida 32204 Dear ICARE Executive Staff Members, Thank you for you invitation to the 2024 Nehemiah Action Assembly. | am. respectfully declining your i During the evening of Monday, April 15, 2024, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office will convene its yearly Police Memorial Ceremony. This solemn and important occasion vitation, as [ have a previously scheduled commitment, provides our agency and city with the opportunity to honor the many brave police officers who have given th As the duly elected leader of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, I cannot miss this ves in the line of duty protecting Jacksonville citizens. memorial ceremony. Moreover, I will not attend ICARE assemblies in the future, given my experience last year at the 2023 Nehemiah Action Assembly. That event environment for constructive conversation, but rather was a staged display in which I not provide an was not permitted to fully answer questions beyond “yes” or “no” responses. The theatrics of this event were compounded by how I was systemically booed by the crowd on command by ICARE leaders and not permitted to hold a microphone, seemingly to prevent me from responding beyond one-word replies. While | am always happy to meaningfully discuss GVI, programming for which I feel great passion as I established it at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, such theatrical assemblies do not provide forums for productive dialogue. To Serve and Protect in Partnership with Our Community While I have answered your articulated three questions on multiple previous occasions, I am happy to again provide you with written responses in this letter. First, ICARE members are free to contact my executive assistant, Latisha Jackson, to schedule meetings in my office to discuss issues of their concern. If you would like these meetings scheduled twice yearly, you can make those arrangements with my executive assistant. Second, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office will not re-contract with the National Network for Safe Communities, an organization with which the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has previously contracted and has shared a close working relationship since 2016. In fact, the National Network for Safety Communities regards our agency’s Group Violence Intervention as one of the model programs. In this vein, the National Network for Safe Communities requested that the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office host their yearly conference to share with twenty-five jurisdictions how we implement effective GVI programming. Given this intimate working partnership, members of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, as a good stewards of taxpayer dollars, would be irresponsible to engage in a superfluous monetary contract when we already benefit from a close noncontractual relationship with the National Network for Safe Communities. Third, I will not attend the Community Problems Assembly in October 2024, as I will not attend future ICARE assemblies, given my experience last year at the 2023 Nehemiah Action Assembly. Regardless, I encourage you to schedule a meeting in my office to discuss our agency’s GVI successes and any other matters of your concern, Additionally, you are always welcome to contact Pastor Garland Scott, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Program Manager for Outreach and Support to discuss local GVI programming. Sincerely, Dk) TK Waters, Sheriff Duval County, Florida iassheriff.org y Street, Jacksonville, PL. 32202

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