- October 28, 2024
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from the Keep Rick Staly Our Sheriff Campaign
The Keep Rick Staly Our Sheriff Campaign announced that it has donated $20,730.62 to the Flagler Sheriff's Employee Assistance Trust recently. These funds were left over from Sheriff Staly's reelection campaign fund.
Florida law requires leftover campaign funds to be used for the Office of the Sheriff, refunded to contributors, transferred to the State of Florida or donated to a qualified charity. Local campaigns are not allowed to keep leftover contributions. Each contributor was sent a letter by Sheriff Staly explaining his plan to donated leftover campaign funds to FSEAT.
The creation of FSEAT in 2017 was the vision of Sheriff Staly to support Sheriff's Office employees during an unexpected emergency in their personal life. It is funded by donations primarily from an annual Sheriff's Gala held in January of each year. The 2021 gala was cancelled because of the pandemic.
"My supporters contributed to keep me Sheriff and continue to lead the men and women of the Sheriff's Office so I thought this was the perfect charity to support with leftover campaign funds," said Sheriff Staly. "And, with the gala being cancelled in January because of COVID, it made even more sense to donate these funds to support our employees."
FSEAT was created by Sheriff Staly and is a 501(c)(3) charity operated by an independent board. FSEAT was structured to allow independence to assist employees without influence by any current or future Sheriff so Sheriff Staly is not on the Board of Directors but strongly supports FSEAT and hopes you will too. If you would like to learn more about FSEAT or make a tax-deductible contribution visit: www.fseat.org.
