Remarks by Michael J. Ryan
398 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 15 of 16
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“Under state law, it's three years. That's FDLV. That's a bit extreme. It is if it's not a cold case.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Listen, that's part of the legislative debate, and the legislature has allowed this. I'm not stopping your time, but one of the frustrations I think I have is the performative politics of this where they could call for a special session and address these issues. They could hammer this out as to what the legislative response is, and instead what we're hearing is that sometime in the future they might talk about it. It's important to talk about the abuses. It's important to talk about who's got access to the data. It's important to talk about private actors. But in the meantime, the question…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's frustrating. And don't leave tonight without giving your information because I want to understand what happened there as well.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“It's a great question, right? So it's part of the struggle here as we talk about this publicly. If we said tonight, let's shut off in Sunrise Lakes Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, Phase 4, very vulnerable populations. We're telling everybody, you're free to come and go. And we've been playing whack-a-mole on trying to chase people who committed crimes here. It's a tough issue now that it's here.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“We do that. If that was that simple, we'd have no speeding on hiatus. Every time we put speed out there, we put the traffic enforcement.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“You like that. I like him, by the way. It's a nice car. It is. It's a Buick. But listen, the day he moves to Pine Island, you know what happens on hiatus. Everybody lights up again. He can't be everywhere in every corner. That's the challenge. You raise a good point, though. Thanks, Jason. Do it. Yeah, make sure you get the information so we can find out about that. Go ahead and give us your name and address. Mr. Mayor. Lift the microphone up.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Major? Will? The acoustics in here, we can hear on the back row. Anything here? If you could just, it just resonates for us, even if the others can't hear it. Thanks, just a little distracted. Go ahead, Stuart. Didn't cut off your time.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Maybe they can find me. Well, our LPR data won't do that for us. We don't get individuals' movements.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. All right, anybody else who wishes to be heard on this matter?”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“State your name and your address, please.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Next speaker, you can release.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. Go ahead and give us your name and your address.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“It's actually required for us to get it for the record. I apologize. But if you're not going to do it, I can't force you to. I can't force you to, so if you don't want to, there's nothing I can do about it. Go ahead.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So let's do this. I know you don't want to give your address or any of your identifying information beyond your name, but I'd like to get your phone number so staff can call you and the police department can call you regarding the dumping. as well as this car almost hitting your neighbor and the dog. I wish there was an LPR there that we would have been able to identify the car. But I don't know how you want to do it. Perhaps you could, you have the number, right? All right. So Lourdes has your number because you called in. She's going to give it to the police chief and staff so they can call…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, so again, they have your name and your number. They'll call you directly, okay? Is that fair?”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, thank you so much. Next speaker, any others?”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, I'll go ahead and close public discussion. Any further comments from my colleagues? I just want to add one thing. No, no, not yet. Nope, nope. Go ahead.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, but they weren't ours. We used other people's LPRs. Okay, so I just want to just clarify, I'm not interrupting.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I have two more questions, but I'm going to pass it on.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. So, a couple of comments. It is political season. It's performative at the state level. It's been suggested it's a distraction. Perhaps that's true. But what The state government hasn't done is paused LPRs. What they've said is we can't put them on state roads. They're using it. They're sharing it. They're sharing it nationally. FDLE and everyone else is accessing it. The suggestion that tonight by reducing access to Sunrise is going to improve safety or protections is a false choice. But we've been led to believe that because rather than an intentional public policy discussion,…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Those are the state standards. You copied the policy from FDLE, correct? Yes, sir. That's what every department in the state of Florida is required to follow, correct? Yes, sir. There's not a lack of guidance. Now, there's other discussions that can certainly be had. I've heard this public discussion that these vendors are selling it. You know, all this data is being sold. It hasn't. Certainly, our vendors made it clear that's not the case. They don't. It belongs to the department. The contract says it belongs to the department. I don't know what Flock's doing. I know they've said publicly…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“But what I'm not prepared to do is tell that neighborhood, because we haven't gotten to because it was on a county road, you don't deserve the same protection as Sunrise Lakes. Or that that business community isn't going to be exposed. It's a worthy discussion. It just can't be done on the fly. So I'd be willing to entertain the discussion. Do you need four for this block? But if we're looking at a chart that shows us those that have not gone in that are on major thoroughfares, not small ones. These are county roads. And we're saying we're just going to stop putting them in. That needs to be…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I get that, and that's the second one I said. If we're stopping the expansion, who are we telling we're not providing coverage? That's what I want to know.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I've allowed you to go to that. I hadn't finished my comments. Give you an example. Northbound and southbound Hiatus Road don't have it at 29th Manor. That's a gap. Right now. Under this proposal, we'll stop. That's freedom. Just go. Sawgrass Expressway on-ramp. Nope. It's not there. West Oakland Boulevard eastbound at Sawgrass Expressway. Nope. We'll stop that. That's a free one. As we go through these county roads that are left to be installed... North Pine Island at 20th Court. North Pine Island at Sunset Strip. North Pine Island at Sunrise Lakes Boulevard, southbound and northbound. We…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And then I'll turn it over to you, because I know your light's on. I'm only saying that if we put a pause, the ones that are in white are not being put in. They may not be put in before the next meeting. So maybe it's not a big deal. But what I don't want to do is step out, me personally, step out and say, we're not going to install in all these white locations, white being the ones that haven't been done. And it says it, hiatus, northbound, southbound.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026