A live worked example using the Stevens method and Florida Chapter 119 There’s a story developing in Broward County right now. A city is in the middle of a high-stakes public safety decision — whether to break a decades-long contract with the Broward Sheriff’s Office and form its own police and fire departments. The debate is loud, political, and closely …
“The City considers ‘established presence in the local community of Pompano Beach’ as an individual or religious organization that has a physical or active presence in Pompano Beach… …including participation in local city events, i.e. memorial ceremonies.” That language is not mine. It comes straight out of the City’s records. And it doesn’t appear anywhere in the City’s published Invocation …
TL;DR BSO cites a 35-year partnership as a reason to stay. Chaz argues municipal contracts aren’t marriages—they are purchases that must be justified by current data, not history. This isn’t a warning.It’s a hostage note written by the vendor. Read it again.Slowly.Strip out the drama and what’s left?Fear words stacked where numbers should be. “Catastrophic mistake.”“Jeopardize public safety.”“87,000 people.” Big …
Most discussions about AI in government focus on speed, efficiency, or automation. That misses the real shift. The most consequential change AI introduces to municipal governance is perfect literalism. AI doesn’t just make review faster. It makes review complete, exact, and unforgiving. The End of Institutional Slack Municipal systems evolved with several quiet assumptions: No one reads everything. No one …