Bob Gualtieri

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Pinellas County commissioners faced criticism from residents yesterday over how they handled Sheriff Bob Gualtieri's defense of Flock cameras at a workshop last Thursday.

Residents accused commissioners of accepting the sheriff's assurances without asking enough tough questions about things like privacy and surveillance and potential abuse.

Gualtieri argued Flock cameras are essential for solving serious crimes and finding missing people, calling them potentially the greatest public safety invention since the two-way radio.

I think that the best way forward here is to make sure there are a bunch of checks in place on something like this.

If you're going to have a tool like this, then you have to have strict oversight of it.

I do get where law enforcement's coming from, and you hear it not just from, like a Bob Gualtieri, you hear it from St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch, who ...

I mean, they are not on the same side, you know-

He says, "We cannot fight crime in the Stone Age." Pinellas sheriff pushes back against flock cam removal.

All right? This is Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, I think is how you say his name.

He spoke out against the removal of license plate reading cameras Wednesday, saying that while there are some legitimate concerns, there are so- No, these aren't some legitimate concerns.

These are serious concerns.

That directly coincides with the boom of residential property owners moving into Florida, buying homes, building homes, and moving to any number of cities and counties throughout this state.

So in Pinellas County, you have Sha- Sheriff Bob Gualtieri.

His salary jumped from a hundred and seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars up to two hundred and seventy-four thousand fifteen dollars.

Hey, guess what, guys? I definitely didn't get a ninety-seven thousand dollar raise in the last four years.

Mm.

Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said that in July, 33-year-old Deputy Travis Stanton, who was recently married, took an inappropriate interest in a 17-year-old employee at a fast food restaurant he visited.

He was accused of looking up her personal information, including address, mother's name, and using law enforcement databases that had access to that information.

And in an unrelated case, the sheriff's office investigated Deputy Carl Gwynn.

Uh, he went to her workplace at least nine times, even went to the parking lot at the high school that she attended looking for her vehicle.

This was after he had, he had searched for her using these databases and then, uh, he knew she was 17, and at one point apparently asked whether she wanted to see a picture of a dead body from another police call.

And this is Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri talking about that.

Who thinks it's okay to take a picture of a dead body from a traffic crash as part of an official investigation and walk into a girl, uh, and, a- a- you know, what do you think? Is, is that a good pickup line? What? I mean, it's stupid.