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Saturday marks the start of the City of Miami鈥檚 budget hearing season. Big ticket items are the dissolution of a police oversight board, a new economic department and a big increase for community development. Residents are encouraged to weigh in on how the city should spend their tax dollars.
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Miami's Civilian Investigative Panel has sued the city after officials announced they'd be defunding the independent police watchdog group. The panel believes it can remain in existence, despite a state law aimed at police oversight.
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City of Miami voters in 2001 showed outsized support for an independent civilian panel to investigate police misconduct. But the City will soon dissolve the Civilian Investigative Panel to comply with a contentious new state law that bans such police watchdog groups.
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A Miami City commissioner has offered a hefty sum of Bayfront Park funds for information leading to the arrest of a pro-Nicol谩s Maduro graffiti tagger.
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Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo, who was ordered last June to pay $63.5 million to two Little Havana business owners who sued him for violating their First Amendment rights, has been fighting to keep his multimillion dollar property in Coconut Grove. A federal magistrate judge has sided with him and recommonded the court accept Carollo's homestead exemption from seizure.
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A new complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development claims the city displaced and discriminated against residents of the historically-Black Coconut Grove Village West, using a pattern of zoning that disparately affects communities of color and contributes to the 鈥渞esegregation鈥 of Miami.
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The City of Miami commission advanced an effort to build luxury condo towers on Watson Island, near the Jungle Island theme park. They also set up a battle with Miami-Dade County on zoning, and further penalized homeless residents.
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The City of Miami and voting rights groups filed a joint motion to approve a settlement after the city was found in federal court to have racially gerrymandered its voting map.
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During a year of mounting scandals and legal woes, the City of Miami looked to an outside firm for expert advice on how to respond to media.
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Miami commissioners have settled with voting rights groups who accused them of racially gerrymandering the city map during redistricting.
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QBE Specialty Insurance has sued the city in federal court seeking a judge's declaration that they have no responsibility to pay the legal fees for Commissioner Joe Carollo in his various lawsuits. They are seeking to recover the fees they've already paid out.
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Four Miami city commissioners voted to defer "the most important vote" the city has had this year that would've adopted a new map of city districts. The commission will now vote on a settlement in two weeks 鈥 if they don't face repercussions.