The arrest of former part-time Pensacola Police Officer Max Baxter for possession of child sexual abuse material, bestiality files, and digital voyeurism shook up the Pensacola Police Department and families at A.K. Suter Elementary and Echo Life Church.
- Parents Question Baxter’s Access to A.K. Suter and Echo Life Church: He was a constant presence at a Pensacola school. Now he’s charged, and PPD can’t find his polygraph. Parents want answers.
- Every PPD Personnel File Under Review, New Policies in Place: A school. A church. A badge. PPD can’t find ex-officer Matthew Baxter’s polygraph chart, and every personnel file is now under review.
Religion Scapegoating: Most county commissioner races are about infrastructure, taxes and potholes. Ashlee Hofberger wants it to about churches. Hofberger says Joe Vinson should answer for his church. Second mailer says he has no public service. His record says otherwise. She showed no service in ’24.
Mayor D.C. Reeves Doesn’t Like Councilman Charles Bare, Sides with Sherri Myers
- Mayor’s PAC Texts Voters to Back Myers Over Bare for D2 Seat: Mayor Reeves’ PAC is texting District 2 voters to dump Councilman Charles Bare for Sherri Myers. See who funds it and why Bare angers the mayor.
- Mayor Dances Around D2 Council Race: Reeves on Myers Support: Not an Official Endorsement, but “That’s My Opinion.”
“It’s Painful”: A Holocaust Survivor’s Son Answers a Critic
Nearly an entire generation of Steve Nissim’s family was murdered in the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex. Read more.
Infant & Fetal Mortality
- Region’s Infant Mortality Down; Fetal Mortality Up Significantly
- Escambia Children’s Trust Awards $3.6 Million to 11 Early Childhood Programs
- Infant Mortality: “A Tale of Two Cities”
IMPACT 100 Awards Record $1.313 Million to 13 Local Nonprofits
1,313 women. 13 nonprofits. $1.313 million. IMPACT 100 just made Pensacola Bay Area history with its biggest grant class ever. See who won grants.
PPD Polygraph: On Thursday, PPD PIO Officer Mike Wood told Andrew McKay that officers only undergo a polygraph when first hired. If so, perhaps no new polygraph was conducted when Baxter was rehired as a so-called “part-time” officer. Wood also said that Baxter was like a full-time officer because he did so much off-duty work. The City Council should adopt an ordinance requiring all PPD Officers to undergo a polygraph each year and at random. Also, does the City Council know that PPD has part-time officers? Nothing I could find in the current or past annual budget documents describe funding for part-time officers. And, if someone is a part-time officer, why would they be authorized use of a “full-time” city vehicle? Also, and the biggest question of all that I have been asking since 2014, why does Pensacola refuse to allow the Sheriff to conduct its road patrols in the city? The City Council should ask CFO Amy Lovoy how many millions in county property taxes paid by “city” property owners helps fund the Sheriff to patrol outside the city and in Century?