Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody visited Green Cove Springs last week to recognize a nonprofit organization created to help deputies and officers facing financial challenges.
Sheriff Michelle Cook and community leaders launched the Signal 35 Fund in 2023 to help law enforcement officers in need. The following year, the fund issued its first check to a retired Clay County deputy facing eviction after medical issues restricted her movement.
Moody said the fund is an example of communities and law enforcement agencies working together at a time when groups in other states were actively opposing peace officers.
“Signal 35 (was created) at a time when many states were facing the opposite,” Moody said. “In many states and cities across the nation, (agencies) were facing community groups that didn’t have their back, that were doing everything vocally and otherwise to undermine law enforcement.”
The cabinet officer called Florida “the most pro-law enforcement state in the nation.”
