Jackson Jambalaya

There are many reasons this could be a legit county business related visit. There’s an Apple Store, there is cspire nearby. Also, there aren’t any major book stores left in Hinds county to buy new books. Someone may have been purchasing “Government for Dummies” from Barnes & Noble.

6:30 at night Friday night? Parked a little close to Caet also.

Someone is in trouble.

I wonder how many government vehicles could be eliminated? It appears too many are not really needed.

At least they keep the car well maintained and clean.

Someone has errored . That vehicle should not be there under any circumstances at that time of day. Pretty sure that is a county supervisors free ride. Bobcat drives a big free truck so it isn't him. You would be surprised how many "employees" also have free rides...and a fuelman card.

Blue stripe- is that a handicap spot?

9:54 that's green. All of the parking spots are striped green.

That's very odd. Hinds gov't tags and City of Jax are usually at Drago's.

C-spire store in Jackson between Northside and Canton Mart

Can anyone tell me why Lumumba's chief of staff Safiya Omari (aka Rhonda Baker) has driven a city of Jackson vehicle for years?? Pretty sure she doesn't own a personal vehicle.

It is common for local government employees to be given a "take home" vehicle if they are commonly required to show up for things outside of normal 8-5 working hours. Such things would include neighborhood meetings, responding to weather events, etc. This includes supervisors and the county administrator and the EOC director. That is not illegal. Nor is it illegal for a supervisor to drive a take home vehicle across the county line. Each supervisor is supposed to fill out a form at the end of each month detailing the number of personal miles the vehicle was driven so that he can be taxed on the value of the personal miles, just like when an business employee has a company car. Any personal use is taxable. The rules recognize that a company issued car is going to have both personal and business use. If you are that interested, do a FOI request for the mileage reports for that particular vehicle.

@9:43. Yeah...probably has a car wash subscription that we're paying for.

@11:02 That ain’t KFs style. He a hater, low key bigot, and gossip blogger. This is just pure hate and gossip. Don’t expect no rational response from him either. Gonna be some effete screeching like he on his period.

Exactly right @ personal use of any government vehicle, city, county, state or federal. The administrative assistants spend lots of time preparing reports for reimbursements !

Shopping for books at Barnes & Noble: "How to embezzle county money and not get caught for dummies."

dive through the parking lot of babes on any given weekend and look at all the marked cars with government plates from many of the outlying counties and municipalities.

Thank you 11:02

You always say "gossip" but you never show any examples. Probably requires thinking on your part.

We need a chip placed in government vehicles reserved for official city business that give a warning if they leave GPS county lines, and give them 5 minutes to turn around. Otherwise vehicle shuts off and can't be restarted without a code. I see too many JPD cars in Pearl and Brandon.

Maybe the stupidest reply to this post? A Madison county supervisor can’t drive to Jackson to meet with the governor? A Hinds supervisor can’t drive to Biloxi to meet with MASIT? Stupid as sheet.

@11:02 & @11:24…are these personal mile reports filled out with the same regularity that a soon to be former mayor files campaign contribution reports?

@4:18 - won't work. There is a lot of legitimate city business outside the city, county business outside the county, and state business outside the state.

And there is a Capital Police vehicle that I see often in the HWY 468/Star Road area who doesn’t know he is required to obey ALL traffic laws like speed limit, stopping at stop signs and using turn signals. Things I can be stopped and ticketed for. You are setting a very poor example for your department.