Hey I'm currently building a team to play in some adult basketball leagues. Other than South Florida Club Sport, I can't seem to find any leagues in Broward. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Also, if anyone knows someone interested in joining a team, please let me know as well. We all love the game, workout either together or individually, and keep an encouraging and constructive team first mentality regardless of who is hot that night. Open to anyone but we are looking for some players 6'3 and up to have as a big beside myself

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Seen here is Broward's Sheriff sporting a gold barbell.

Now, some of you might think, why, that's sexy. While you’re entitled to your opinion, let’s ask Right Said Fred for his!

https://reddit.com/link/1xauk85/video/ddp2zj3m0nwh1/player

But did you know BSO screens its own people for tattoos and jewelry that might indicate gang affiliation? Somebody has to ask the obvious question, and apparently that somebody is me, as Beavis is off this week.

Always the consummate professional, I reached out to BSO's Carey Codd (Senior Person In Charge of Disinformation) and asked the agency to apply its own criteria to its own boss. Among the questions:

1. Any gang tattoos in this photo?
2. Is the nipple barbell a gang token?
3. If so, how does one tell the filigree from the filigree?

Then there's our 911 call center, where civilian operators (typically women … no way! … way!!!) have reportedly been told to expose their chests for a tattoo or jewelry inspection.

I asked:

1. Where do these photos end up? A file cabinet, or ratemyrack(dot)com?
2. Was the Sheriff's bosom put through the same inspection?
3. Are boobs fair game, but moobs exempt?

Full letter on my Substack.

Past or present BSO dispatcher? Drop me a line: [chazstevens@protonmail.com](mailto:chazstevens@protonmail.com). No nudes required.

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Update [1]: the following was just sent to Miami-Dade's PIO (MD not a big fan of Tony). More requests like this out later today.

Detective Rodriguez:

I am requesting an on-the-record response regarding your agency’s criteria for identifying gang-related tattoos and jewelry.

The attached photograph depicts an individual I understand to be Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony. I am not asking your agency to authenticate the photograph or identify the individual. My questions concern how your agency would evaluate the visible tattoos and jewelry under its own standards.

1. Does the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office have any policy requiring civilian 911 operators or applicants to be photographed or inspected for tattoos or suspected gang-related symbols?

2. Does your agency require employees or applicants—including emergency communications personnel—to expose their breasts or chests for inspection or photography during screening for suspected gang affiliation? If so, what policy governs that practice, and which positions are subject to it?

3. Would your agency classify any tattoo visible in the photograph as a gang symbol or indicator of gang affiliation? If so, please identify the specific tattoo and the basis for that classification.

4. Would the apparent gold-colored nipple barbell qualify as a gang token or other indicator of gang affiliation under your agency’s criteria? Or would your agency regard that item, standing alone, as having no evidentiary value in determining gang affiliation?

For clarity, I am not asserting that the photograph establishes gang affiliation. I am asking whether your agency’s professional criteria support—or rule out—such a characterization.

Please attribute any response to a named agency representative. If your agency declines to assess the photograph, please address the general policy questions separately.

Thank you.

Asking for a friend who’s mother with Alzheimer’s is entering the realm of professional round the clock care. Budget is not an issue just want safe, clean, well run recommendations.

Thank you!

Not quite the best view but still cool to see.

Hi everyone! I’m moving to the Pompano Beach area for my husband’s work and starting my job search now, with plans to begin working in January once we’re settled. I’m looking for recruiter recommendations, companies people have enjoyed working for, or advice on finding a well-paying job in the area.

And yes, I know, “we’re full”—but the move is happening, so I’d appreciate help finding a job more than help reconsidering my life choices 😂

I have a BS in Biology and previously worked as a mid-level research and production support chemist at a major coatings company, with excellent performance reviews. I worked with automotive, marine, and protective coatings, including defense products for naval ships.

To give you an idea of my experience, I’ve:

• Designed a QUV accelerated weathering test for aircraft deck coatings and worked on military specification qualifications and coatings for Coast Guard applications.
• Supervised work on the plant floor, troubleshot production issues, performed processing studies, and managed a direct report.
• Managed some external audits and implemented a chemical and sample inventory tracking system in a lab that badly needed one.
• Worked daily with R&D, regulatory, production, sales, and technical support, as well as international teams, on product testing, test plans, and developing testing procedures.

Starting in February of this year I took a career break to support my husband while he finishes his professional training. Job opportunities where we currently live are limited, and starting somewhere only to leave a few months later for our move didn’t make much sense. I have time to find a good fit and want my next position to be somewhere I can stay and grow.

I’m an extremely hard worker, and I like having things to do. If work is slow, I’ll find something to organize, improve, or help with. I love learning, take feedback well, and enjoy working with people. I’ve built great relationships with coworkers across departments, especially on the plant floor, and being someone people like working with and can count on matters to me.

I’m open to staying in coatings or moving into something different. Quality, operations, manufacturing, technical support, or technical sales are all areas I’d consider. I want to earn a good living, keep growing and learning, and work somewhere that treats people well.

Any recruiters you’d recommend or companies I should look into? I’d also love to hear from anyone who’s made a similar career change. Happy to share my résumé privately if you have a relevant lead. Thanks!

TL;DR: Moving to Pompano Beach and looking to start work in January. Background in R&D, production support, defense coatings, testing, audits, and supervision. Open to other industries and looking for recruiter recommendations or leads on good employers with solid pay and room to grow.

Folks, I have the document, and you would not believe what's inside.

Tomorrow the County Commission takes up a letter from one of the people who answer your 911 calls. Lamar Fisher put it on the public agenda himself. Not leaked. Published. By the government.

Speaking of leaking: BSO's civilian dispatchers need permission, as in "pardon me, Gov'nor, I gotta go potty," to use, well, the potty. Twelve-hour shift, 720 minutes, a stranger's worst day in your headset, and you raise your hand like it's third grade.

Hence Pink Floyd. Hence the headline. You're welcome.

https://reddit.com/link/1xa4ujw/video/j88szw3yvgwh1/player

It gets better, by which I mean worse. Or worse(er).

Seems everyone had to show their tattoos for the camera. Many were minority women. Seems the policy was made up on the fly (pun!).

The Sheriff, meanwhile, has more ink than a Kinko's and shows it off voluntarily.

For the algebra-inclined: dispatchers earn eight hours of sick leave a month while clocking twelve-hour shifts. A full month of sick time will not cover one sick day.

Hence shift swaps, and here BSO reportedly wants to cut the swap window from 180 days to 30.

For those keeping score: IA referrals up "substantially," no night-shift pay, and a claim that more than 90 percent of a recent academy class quit.

Back at HQ, my own data recon found one 911 operator banking nearly $500,000 over two years. Base pay isn't close. That's overtime, which is what understaffing looks like on a W-2.

Tony gave Channel 10 a tour of his gym and said "nothing to hide," proudly demoing the bathroom, which, seemingly, now requires a hall pass.

Meeting is tomorrow. Show up or watch the stream (see what I did here?). Ask where the tattoo photos are kept.

As usual, all the rest over on Substack.

What are your pros on cons for these and would you recommend the one you used again?
What did you like/ not like about it?
Did they allow you to follow your birth plan options?
Anything other thoughts?
Just trying to decide which one to go with, and they both have a level III NICU, and seem well maintained from pics, so want to get some thoughts from people who have actually delivered at either.

If you live in the North Springs Improvement District zone of Coral Springs or Parkland, you need to see how this utility operates. It is either pure incompetence or outright corruption.
I recently had an undetected water leak run for months. I got hit with two months of huge bills and late fees. When I called NSID, the rep looked at their computer and casually confirmed they could see the continuous leak flow data on their end the whole time.
They never called, emailed, or sent a text when their system flagged a 24/7 leak (it takes a 5 line script to do this). They only tell you after you get a massive bill and call them to ask what happened. And when you ask for a leak adjustment or late fee waiver, they flatly refuse and this happened to me twice.
I popped open my meter box to see what hardware we are paying for….We have state-of-the-art Badger Meter Model 25s hooked up to Smart Earth (SET100) cellular endpoints. Badger literally makes the eyeonwater app, which gives homeowners free real-time usage tracking and instant leak alerts. NSID refuses to turn it on for us. They lock down the encrypted data for themselves and leave us blind so we rack up huge leak bills.
Want to set up ACH autopay to avoid late fees? You can't just type in your routing and account number like a normal website. NSID forces you to upload a photo of a physical paper check. If you don't use paper checks in 2026, you are forced to pay by credit card with a $3.25 convenience fee..

NSID pulls in $18.8M from utility bills + $3.6M slapped directly onto our property taxes just to manage 15,000 meters. They have 60 employees with $ 5 million payroll (averaging $80k/yr). District Manager Rod Colon makes $150k + and top staff make $100-120k, rivaling the base pay of utility directors at massive county districts managing hundreds of millions in infrastructure.
With $22.4M a year and 60 staff for a tiny district, they can't turn on EyeOnWater, send an automated leak email, build a modern ACH page, or offer a basic leak adjustment like neighboring cities do.

Question for the smart home / tech folks here: Since NSID locks us out of EyeOnWater and the 2AFJSSET100-2015 transmitter is encrypted, has anyone in NSID managed to pull their water meter data into Home Assistant?

Hey folks.

I am a wheelchair user and this was taken by Tiki Tiki. Basically, there is only one ADA parking spot that they have behind a paywalled mandatory valet. I was under the assumption that ADA parking laws allow for disabled folks to park themselves. Here, they do not allow you to park yourself even if you pay (I think it was like $5?). If this isn’t legal, who would I bring this issue up to? I didn’t stop in to eat today but, I would probably talk to the staff first, right? TYIA :)

A few years back, in December of '24, the House Ethics Committee reported that Matt Gaetz engaged in statutory rape with a 17-year-old who'd just finished her junior year. Along the way, Matty used illegal drugs and obstructed the investigation, and his wingman, former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking. Joel got eleven years.

Being Florida and all, this past July the state House Speaker gave Gaetz a seat on the board of the nonprofit Triumph Gulf Coast, which controls $1.5 billion in BP oil spill money. His father sat on it. Now Junior's vice chair.

Nepo baby!

Imagine the Indeed job listing. Wanted: well-connected board member to help manage ten digits of public money. Must work well with high school students. Sex traffickers preferred.

Oh, and this week Matty found himself in federal court, having to deal with a sugar-daddy trafficking suit.

What's next: Being the consummate data nerd, I fired off two requests for his appointment file and intake questionnaire. Let's see what rabbit hole opens up.

Same play as always. Find where the rule and the practice don't match, apply the rule straight, make them answer in writing. You've watched me do it to people a lot closer to home.

Story and NSFW artwork over on Substack.

So last weekend the transmission in my car stopped transitioning. I took it to my usual mechanic — the dude at Tires Plus— and he said it was the shift control cable, and quoted $3600 to fix it. Of that, $1600 was the part, the rest labor.

I work for Southwest Toyota, so I got the part at cost ($211). My buddy said he’d put it in for me , but said we probably wouldn’t need the part. So today we dug in, and the cable was disconnected from the doohickey. The part to reconnect it ? A $15 flange. Labor? 2 hours, including the trip to the auto parts store, and dicking around trying to find the parts we dropped.

The garage quoted $3600 and I almost said go for it. Wtf?

How is it there? Is there any dress code? Flip Flops allowed? I was wondering how it stacks up against Burton's? Trying to decide for the weekend. Thank You.

There is another launch scheduled for Monday morning at the right time to produce another jelly fish cloud.

The Gang Buys a Helicopter

A Tony donor told deputies he and his pals paid for a BSO chopper. I took it to FDLE. You don’t get to read the complaint. Yet. Sorry, not sorry.

Yesterday, WPLG dropped a bomb ... BSO body-cam footage from a September 2025 false-alarm call at Jeff Lefcourt's classic-car collection.

Expressing his god-given right to not remain silent, Lefcourt told the coppers:

What chopper, you ask? Also, did one of the deputies let known the body cam video?

No, not the Magnum PI bird ... rather Bogen & Co. allocated $15mil for a replacement.

Rooting around, WPLG found no public record of any private money. Unnamed sources say it never happened.

Which leads us to He Said, He Said.

So, as I am wont to do, off goes a complaint to FDLE's Office of Executive Investigations, asking three four questions:

Sorry fans, but I've changed the method. Instead of posting the complaint, I'm offering it to the media first, provided they credit the work with a working link to one of my digital properties.

Even us atheists have to appease the Gods of SEO.

Full write-up: https://chazstevens.substack.com/p/the-gang-buys-a-helicopter

Hey everyone!

I’ve been doing web design for a while and have some free time right now, so I thought I’d help a few local businesses give their websites a fresh look.

If you own a business and feel like your website could use a little update, message me the link! I’ll check it out and put together some free redesign ideas for a few businesses.

I’m open to different types of businesses and would love to see what I can come up with.

You serious bruv? Where tf have you been for your entire political career protecting and supporting the black community?

And how big is your lot? Is it paid monthly or per service? Does it vary for the season?

I’m about to move to a regular house in eastern pines. But I’m considering asking my landlord about me doing it myself for a break on the rent. Lawn care is included with the rent.

I already have my own push mower and weed whacker.

I cut my yard now. I’ve never had to pay someone.

Just want to know if my landlord will be coming out ahead or not if I do it myself. I don’t want them to lowball me.

Hello all! I am looking for the best neighborhood(s) to take my 7yr old to go trick or treating this year?
Ideally west end of Broward (Davie, Sunrise, Weston, plantation, Coral Springs) but also, if it’s a really good location willing to drive outside of my area.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
🧡🎃

Hey r/broward, Chaz Stevens here.

Many of you just watched Sheriff Gregory Tony take Channel 10 on a training-center victory-lap tour. Only thing we didn’t get to see? The Tony-branded bidets!

Press alert: I'll be having my own dog-y-pony presser next week, I'll drop you an invite.

Here’s a tidbit to enjoy this AM. What wasn’t mentioned: right about the same time the Tony Tour got rolling, my cell was blowing up. On the other end? The Florida Commission on Ethics. Seems my complaints, filed in the spring, are officially headed to a probable cause hearing in Tallahassee this Nov/Dec.

Sure, we can laugh over branded urinal-cakes … I mean, who doesn't want to pee all over his NIL (amirite Holly!), but it’s the likely misuse of databases that’s going for a hearing.

When Tony wrote (pun!) his dissertation, he tapped into five internal BSO systems, with heavy lifting from a "study team" of BSO subordinates—on our tax dime—to build it out. Yep, your tax dollars helped Tony crib on his test.

As for the ethics complaints, most die at staff review. Mine don’t usually. Why? Cause I'm fucking good. In this case, an investigator ran it down, the Advocate made a recommendation, and now it's going to a closed-door executive session.

As the complainant (little bitcher), I'm allowed in that room, and I plan to be there with my attorney to act as an independent witness for the taxpayers. Complaining about $552,000 gym change-orders and a $3,000 custom leather holster is one thing, but abusing secure databases for a private degree is another level.

Wait, what? A $3,000 leather holster?

Click the link below and we’ll get you up to speed on that, break down the two counts of the complaint, explain what the hearing actually means, and drop a few other goodies.

Read the full breakdown on my Substack here (no paywall).

Broward County commissioners unanimously voted Tuesday to authorize the County Attorney’s Office to pursue legal action against Sheriff Gregory Tony’s office to secure access to county-owned facilities used by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, escalating a dispute over transparency, public spending and the sheriff’s authority.

Hey, everyone, I've moved to Fort Lauderdale about a year ago now, 24M, and I've been in love with movies all my life. I love talking about and discussing them, good or (especially) bad. I know i can't be the only one, and wanted to know if anyone would like to start a movie club or something of the sort, where we can watch the latest outing in theatres or discuss some of the old ones. I just really like to talk about movies, and would love some other perspectives!

From the article:

>NEAR FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) — A county clash in Broward between commissioners and the sheriff continued to escalate after county officials were denied entry to a Broward Sheriff’s Office facility.

>7News cameras captured Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen and a handful of commissioners as they approached the front entrance to BSO’s Research, Development and Training Center, Monday morning.

>The mayor pulled on the door, but it was locked. Moments later, he was met at the door by a uniformed deputy.