LARGO - Two employees of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office have been disciplined for violating the agency's anti-adultery policy. It is the first punishment of its kind since Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats instituted the unique prohibition two years ago. ...more

December 27, 2007

Santa's workshop got a little outside help this year, courtesy of Oldsmar couple Kevin and Debbie Bechtel. The Bechtels, owners of Life Brokerage Partners, 3982 Tampa Road, donated 97 bicycles and helmets to the Pinellas Sheriff's Christmas Sharing Project. The project helps families in need by seeing that children in those families find a gift waiting for them when they wake up Christmas morning. ...more

December 22, 2007

LARGO - Sixty-seven inmates displaced by the storm that ravaged the Land O' Lakes Jail in Pasco County arrived today for a stay at the Pinellas County Jail. They could be in Pinellas for up to two months. ...more

December 19, 2007

A Pinellas County sheriff's officer is suspended and demoted after an internal affairs investigation that produced a 1,000-page report made public today. ...more

October 9, 2007

Pinellas County Sheriff Jim Coats made history Tuesday by appointing a black woman to run the Pinellas County Jail. ...more

September 19, 2007

Sheriff Jim Coats appointed Alexis M. Davis to be the first black woman to run the Pinellas County Jail. ...more

September 18, 2007

After 25 years Alexis M. Davis has risen to the top of the Pinellas Sheriff's Office Corrections Bureau. ...more

September 18, 2007

Pinellas County Sheriff Jim Coats has been named to a statewide committee targeting illicit drug sales and serious violent crime. ...more

September 12, 2007

147 Pinellas Sheriff's employees will lose their take home cars starting October 1st. Most of the cars are unmarked vehicles used by the civilian staff. The new policy doesn't affect deputies who take marked patrol cars home. Sheriff Jim Coats says this is part of a larger plan of budget cutbacks. ...more

September 6, 2007