Comments on: Florida Gov’t Weekly Roundup: Strange Days Indeed http://www.northescambia.com/2017/03/florida-govt-weekly-roundup-strange-days-indeed Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:33:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cj http://www.northescambia.com/2017/03/florida-govt-weekly-roundup-strange-days-indeed/comment-page-1#comment-338729 cj Tue, 07 Mar 2017 03:12:47 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=279486#comment-338729 Just heard that correctional officers for the state are going to either have to be clean shaven or just a mustache. Why? Their families - their wives - their little children - know their Dad looks like he does now and probably has looked this way since before he was initially employed. Why does Julie Jones have to arbitrarily change the male officers' appearances? Why does she have to affect their family lives? Perhaps Julie Jones is trying to change the look of the DOC because there have been some bad correctional officers. Except - I have known men that with a beard or "stache" that smiled and without it - they never smiled. Perhaps it is their way of coping. I really just do not see the purpose in the change. Not only that but there have to have been an awful lot of good and great correctional officers. Just heard that correctional officers for the state are going to either have to be clean shaven or just a mustache. Why? Their families – their wives – their little children – know their Dad looks like he does now and probably has looked this way since before he was initially employed. Why does Julie Jones have to arbitrarily change the male officers’ appearances? Why does she have to affect their family lives?
Perhaps Julie Jones is trying to change the look of the DOC because there have been some bad correctional officers. Except – I have known men that with a beard or “stache” that smiled and without it – they never smiled. Perhaps it is their way of coping. I really just do not see the purpose in the change. Not only that but there have to have been an awful lot of good and great correctional officers.

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