{"id":1165150,"date":"2022-09-21T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1165150"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T21:26:02","slug":"jacksonville-police-chief-returns-to-work-after-allegations-deemed-unfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1165150","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police chief returns to work after allegations &#8220;deemed unfounded&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/jw-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1158807\" \/>JACKSONVILLE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jacksonville Police Chief Joe Williams has returned to the department after allegations against him were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deemed unfounded,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the city of Jacksonville on Wednesday. According to our news partner KETK, officials launched an almost three-week long investigation. Williams returned to work on Sept. 20 after a third-party investigatory firm, Fee, Smith &#038; Sharp, LLP, looked into the allegations. Attorney Darrell Noga spearheaded the investigation and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in summation, we [Fee, Smith &#038; Sharp, LLP] are of the opinion that this investigation may be concluded and the allegations against Chief Williams be deemed unfounded. We see no reason Chief Williams should not return to work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Williams was on paid leave from Aug. 29 through Sept. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jacksonville Police Chief Joe Williams has returned to the department after allegations against him were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deemed unfounded,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the city of Jacksonville on Wednesday. According to our news partner KETK, officials launched an almost three-week long investigation. Williams returned to work on Sept. 20 after a third-party investigatory firm, Fee, Smith &#038; Sharp, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1165150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jacksonville police chief returns to work after allegations &#8220;deemed unfounded&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1165154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/jw-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Jacksonville police chief returns to work after allegations \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deemed unfounded\u00e2\u20ac\u009d","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 12:03:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/jw-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Jacksonville police chief returns to work after allegations \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deemed unfounded\u00e2\u20ac\u009d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165152,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165150\/revisions\/1165152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}