Gerard Albert
Broward County ReporterGerard Albert III covers Broward County for WLRN. Before joining WLRN full time, he reported on crime and public safety in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
He was awarded the South Carolina Press Association's first place award for profile writing and third place for enterprise reporting.
Gerard also reported on crime and public safety in West Palm Beach, where he reported on the intersection of mental health and the criminal justice system.
Gerard earned his Bachelors degree from Florida International University where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper.
He can be reached atgalbert@wlrnnews.org
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The Broward County State Attorney’s office will now publicly share data about who they prosecute and how they prosecute them. Publicly sharing the data is part of a national push for more transparency in the criminal justice system.
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The abhorrent state of the Westview Community Cemetery is at the center of a legal battle over who is in charge of its operation, upkeep and land — some of which was contentiously sold to a developer who planned an industrial office park.
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In denying Greg Chavarria a raise, some commissioners took a rare move to voice their dissatisfaction with his performance.
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The school board unanimously rejected a plan brought by Superintendent Peter Licata for the district to begin building out its own full-scale police force as soon as next month.
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The county spent close to a million dollars to advertise themselves as welcoming and inclusive at the annual parade. Civil rights organization Equality Florida, which had issued an advisory against travel to the state in August, praised the move.
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Steve Glassman proposed taking almost $640,000 out of the city's budget for homeless services next year after the city lost a long-running lawsuit over a ban on the feeding of homeless people in public parks.
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The city has long backed a tunnel as their preferred solution for a drastic increase in train traffic crossing the river in the coming years, while Broward has favored a bridge. But city commissioners now voted 3 to 2 in favor of a resolution that would accept a bridge.
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Advocates have been pushing the federal government for years on the work permit issue, but the administration is negotiating with Senate Republicans a compromise that would enforce stricter immigration policies to secure more money for Ukraine and Israel.
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Florida's state athletic board fined Monarch High School on Tuesday, placing the Coconut Creek school on probation after a transgender student played on the girls volleyball team, a violation of a controversial law enacted by DeSantis and the Republican-majority Legislature.
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Broward County is counting on commuter rail — with multiple stops in densely populated areas — to be the centerpiece of new transit improvements over the next decade. There’s just one issue to resolve — how will trains cross New River, which splits the city of Fort Lauderdale.
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Superintendent Peter Licata says closing schools is a last resort but it's still an option to save the district money.
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Construction at the Central Homeless Assistance Center in Fort Lauderdale has been delayed for more than a year, preventing many from being housed by shelter.