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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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.
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The school board, the union said, has offered no money out of their own budget for raises.
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At a commission meeting, the city discussed recent studies that say a tunnel is the most expensive option to replace the current railway drawbridge. Broward County has been pushing for a bridge.
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The Fortify Lauderdale project will improve stormwater infrastructure in 25 neighborhoods.
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One of the state’s leading experts on affordable housing told stakeholders in Broward that developers need to be seen as friends, not foes.
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As the city tries to rapidly make infrastructure improvements six months after April's historic flood, public records reviewed by WLRN detail the frantic recovery operations and where employees felt they could have done better.
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The Nancy J. Cotterman Center is named after a longtime former employee of the Broward Sexual Assault Treatment center. It was housed in Fort Lauderdale until this year — although plans for a new center started in 2004. Its new home is in Oakland Park.
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Broward's biggest city and Broward commissioners have argued and debated for years in trying to decide the future of the New River Crossing.
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Justice for App Workers claims hundreds of other delivery drivers working for Walmart in Florida are victims of a "predatory scam ring" that has hacked into the retailer's app to steer deliveries to a group of "rogue" drivers.
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Broward County public school students went without a sexual education curriculum last year after the board failed to pass one.
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The money for infrastructure and rail projects comes from President Biden's $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Congress approved nearly two years ago.
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Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Florida announced charges Thursday against 17 BSO employees, saying they defrauded the federal government out of about $500,000.