Land O' Lakes and Lutz — your local wire.
Land O' Lakes and Lutz — your local wire.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco formally ended the county's license plate reader agreement on Aug. 26, warning the Sept. 30 shutdown will hurt crime-solving while private cameras on CDD and HOA property remain active.
Public Safety
Pasco County is set to begin construction on a sidewalk along Parkway Boulevard in Land O' Lakes, the county's most dangerous school pedestrian route, connecting Pineview Elementary to Collier Parkway with a new crosswalk in a 200-day state-funded project.
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The Pasco Sheriff's Office says auto burglaries are increasing in the Land O' Lakes area and is urging residents to follow the #9PMRoutine — removing valuables, closing windows and locking car doors nightly.
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The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Pasco and Hillsborough counties on Tuesday, Aug. 11, with heat index values reaching 105 to 109 degrees from noon to 7 p.m., just two days before Pasco County Schools opens for the new year.
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Pasco County families with children ages 1–7 can apply now for free state-funded swim lesson vouchers through the Florida Department of Health, with no fixed deadline but limited funding.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission closed recreational bay scallop harvesting in all Pasco County state waters on Aug. 6, cutting the season 12 days short after detecting toxic algae at unsafe levels in the water.
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Pasco County's School Resource Officers have completed their annual training, including mental health crisis intervention coursework, one week before Land O' Lakes High, Sunlake High and 104 other campuses open for the 2026-27 school year on Aug. 13.
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Tampa General Hospital wants to station blood-delivering drones at two Hillsborough County fire stations, cutting delivery time to under three minutes for trauma patients; the county commission votes Wednesday, Sept. 2.
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A second locally acquired dengue fever case has been confirmed in Hillsborough County, one week after the first case of the 2026 season, prompting DOH-Hillsborough and Hillsborough County Mosquito Management to ramp up surveillance and treatments.
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The Pasco Sheriff's Office published a back-to-school safety advisory on Aug. 3 warning Land O' Lakes and Lutz families that fake school threats can bring felony charges and that popular first-day-of-school social media posts can expose children to predators.
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The Hillsborough TPO completed its largest-ever traffic count effort this spring with 281 stations, including 81 tracking pedestrians and cyclists, and the resulting data will directly shape which road, trail, and safety projects get funded in unincorporated Land O' Lakes, Odessa, and Lutz.
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Surveillance cameras captured a suspect breaking into vehicles in the Mirada community of San Antonio just after midnight on July 29, the latest in a county-wide spike in auto burglaries that the Pasco Sheriff's Office is warning Land O' Lakes and Lutz residents about.
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