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Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is looking into the rates for phone calls at correctional facilities ...

A Florida Department of Corrections ... 2 From Lakeland And Bartow In Polk County Jail Deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the scene after receiving an automated crash ...

Mike Kalman, a mechanical engineering fabrication specialist at Florida Poly, and engineering graduate Matthew DeCicco have designed and created a custom holster for Lakeland officers that helps ...

(This story has been changed to make a couple of corrections.) Lauren Miller Rogen ... Adele, a longtime Lakeland resident and teacher in Polk County schools, died in 2020 at age 69.

Lakeland Police officers are now equipped with a new device for their body cameras that will help them during split-second ...

An investigation into a March traffic stop showed they shut off their cameras during a chase. Three have been the subject of past citizen complaints.