After a new state law went into effect last month criminalizing sleeping on public streets, some law enforcement agencies found themselves in a tough spot: When they enforce the law and make the homeless move along, typically the homeless just move somewhere else.

A local hero received the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Missing Children’s Day Citizen of the Year by the Orange County Commission and by Orange County Corrections where he works as a jail officer for something he did as a dad.

A local hero was just honored by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as its Missing Children's Day Citizen of the Year

No crook should ever slip through the cracks again at the Flagler County jail.

It's the answer to a problem Central Florida's toll road operators have been trying to solve since the highways first opened decades ago: How do they know when and how badly their crash barricades are damaged?

They're an unlikely team: a recently-hired police officer from Tanzania and an Army veteran born and raised in Ocala tackling crime together in one of the city's roughest spots - Berkeley Pointe apartments.

The identification bracelets invented by Port Orange nurse Amanda Anderson promised to be revolutionary: no longer did a rubber wristband need the help of police officers to be interpreted and, thus, useful

After the Eustis Police Department became the first law enforcement agency in Florida to install and then activate school-zone speed cameras, the number of drivers detected speeding 11 mph over the posted speed limit steadily increased.

Melbourne, like so much of Central Florida, has grown so fast – and so has the police department, now with almost 200 officers, outgrowing its old buildings.

It's a cheap, tiny low-tech device getting big results in Flagler County.

Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young is claiming a major drop in violent crime in his city, largely due to a team he put together of tough, aggressive enforcers.

Most homes are burglarized when no one is home or when the homeowner is on vacation, according to the Kissimmee Police Department, so the PD started a specialized Vacation Watch Program. ​

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office is fighting back with firepower – $355,000 against the hate directed at Jewish people here in Central Florida.

When school starts in Seminole County, so will random classroom searches with a sheriff’s office canine to make campuses safer.

Monday evening, Oviedo city leaders will begin a contentious debate for a third time over asking voters for millions of dollars to build a new police station

There are very few law enforcement agencies in Central Florida that still do not use body-worn cameras.

It's the first arrangement of its kind in the state, according to the New Smyrna Beach Police Department: A department pairing an officer with a counselor to go into the woods and visit the homeless regularly, even daily.

The Chief of Police in Lake County's Eustis, the first-ever city in Florida to install speed cameras in a school zone and send out tickets, got a surprise after activating the cameras on April 3.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly revealed "Prepared Live," a software that 911 dispatchers use to access callers' cell phone cameras, has been utilized by Flagler County dispatchers 149 times since the Sheriff's Office purchased it in February 2023.

The town of Montverde is so small that it doesn't have a police department.

It was a small win in the ever-expanding epidemic that is draining seniors of their life savings – telephone, email and social media scams.

Six months after voters resoundingly rejected Oviedo’s request to tear down the city’s 3-decade-old police department headquarters and rebuild it almost quadruple the size for $47 million, the city is revealing Plan B – and five other smaller, less-expensive options.

Are parents getting the message to protect their children?

Sanford police are getting results tackling the nationwide TikTok trend of stealing certain Kias and Hyundais.

They’re a father-daughter duo largely responsible for protecting students at Sanford Middle School over the past several decades.

Nonprofit Project Opioid announced on Monday that overdoses have finally fallen and the wide availability of naloxone, commonly known by the brand name Narcan, is the reason why.

When convicted felons are released from state prison, they must provide the Florida Department of Corrections with an address where they intend to live and then must register with the sheriff's office in that county. But that's it. In Flagler County however, Sheriff Rick Staly goes beyond that requirement.

When the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Safety Act required armed officers or guardians in every Florida school starting in 2018, that created an opportunity for the Clermont Police Department: to add officers to all elementary schools since the Lake County Sheriff's Office was already in middle and high schools.

The list of scams these days is almost endless.

It’s a first for Central Florida: 911 dispatchers can now assist when someone in a mental health crisis calls for help.

Last October, News 6 told you about a breakthrough solution at middle schools across Orlando: The city embedded five adults full-time at the schools to do nothing but get troubled kids back on track.

It was an incredible stroke of luck combined with solid detective work that stopped a serial scammer responsible for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions, from the elderly across Central Florida, according to police.

Most cruise ship passengers, more than anything, care about coming home safely. And the Coast Guard’s special unit – the Marine Safety Unit (MSU) based at the port – makes sure of that every day.

It's been just over a year since Volusia County's answer to the growing juvenile crime problem first opened: an all-encompassing Juvenile Detention Center in Daytona Beach, officially named the Family Resource Center by Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood.

Lake County just renewed its second-chance program for teens in trouble because it's getting results.

It's the best piece of technology the Titusville 911 Call Center has installed in more than a decade, according to the Titusville Police Department.

UCF Police and Victim Services are seeing an alarming rise in the "sextortion" of students on campus.

Many Central Florida law enforcement agencies have partnered with mental health counselors to better respond to emergency calls with a mental health component but not in Brevard County - until last year.

After an awful high-speed crash that ended with a car in a backyard, the City of Groveland is getting results for Cypress Oaks.

A year ago, Raysean Brown was hired by the City of Orlando's Children and Families Division to start up a program that has been tried and tested in major cities around the country: Community Violence Initiative (CVI).

At any given moment, Volusia County is home to upwards of 1,000 registered sex offenders and 150 sexual predators. Some of them are branded with the offender/predator designation for life; some are on probation.

Anytime anyone is arrested, the consequences cause a ripple effect — often family members are affected, especially children.

The Sanford Police Department’s new online crime reporting tool is getting results, making the police aware of crimes they might never have found out about and enabling investigators to get started on a case immediately.

It’s the time of year that high schoolers celebrate homecoming with spirit week leading up to the biggest football game of the season, the crowning of the homecoming king and queen, and the traditional homecoming dance.

It's a solution from Central Florida's largest city to combat the rise of violence and poor behavior in our schools.

The 11-year-old accused of taking a loaded gun from his mother's car and shooting two 13-year-olds at an Apopka Pop Warner game is now at least the third time in Central Florida over the past several months where a child has gotten access to a gun and fired it.

What else is our law enforcement doing to help those in mental health crisis, keep them out of jail and prevent violence?

It’s a mind-boggling, eye-opening story involving your friends and neighbors losing millions of dollars and an investigator who got much of it back.

It’s a mind-boggling, eye-opening story involving your friends and neighbors losing millions of dollars and an investigator who got much of it back.

It’s a mind-boggling, eye-opening story involving your friends and neighbors losing millions of dollars and an investigator who got much of it back.

This year in Flagler County, there are 13 school resource deputies (SRDs) protecting children, including two at both high schools.

It was an incredible story of success five years ago: A Clermont community easily considered one of the most dangerous places in Central Florida with regular robberies, attacks, and murders becoming a safe haven for seniors and families.

News 6 is seeing the results of a unique jail cooking class that began last year.

As more police departments and sheriff’s offices upgrade their body cameras to include livestreaming capabilities, more officers and deputies are using that feature regularly, even daily.

Detectives at the University of Central Florida have found new ways to thwart bike thieves on campus.

News 6 is getting results.

Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez said much of the search effort is “behind the scenes” and “all hands on deck,” especially when it’s a child missing.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood’s answer to fixing a major problem in his county—taking care of teens in trouble and keeping them off a path to prison—is a long-needed Juvenile Assessment Center.