{"id":64732,"date":"2026-04-14T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=64732"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:21:28","slug":"talbot-house-ministries-needs-to-be-more-transparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/04\/14\/talbot-house-ministries-needs-to-be-more-transparent\/","title":{"rendered":"Talbot House Ministries needs to be more transparent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maria Cruz, the executive director of Talbot House Ministries, refuses to be transparent when it comes to their finances.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lakeland Gazette<\/em> has asked for its current financial documents three times, which are required by the IRS upon request.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Ms. Cruise hiding? Is it because they’re broke? Or have they misrepresented themselves with the federal funds? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city commissioners should be asking certain questions before they even approve the rezoning of the new property. <\/p>\n\n\n

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  • Is their business model broken?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Have they ever had to cover payroll with a loan?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Have they ever misrepresented themselves to obtain a loan or grant from the federal government?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Have they ever misrepresented themselves to obtain a loan or grant from Polk County or the City of Lakeland?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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    • How many times has Polk County EMS come to Talbot House Ministries since 2016? How many times has Polk County EMS come within half a mile of Talbot House Ministries since 2016?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • How many times has the Lakeland Police Department come to Talbot House Ministries since 2016? <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • How many times has the Lakeland Fire Department come to Talbot House Ministries since 2016?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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      • Has Talbot House Ministries ever locked the door and left people outside in the heat or cold? Then called 911?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        City staff should have these answers before the new property is rezoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Maria Cruz, the executive director of Talbot House Ministries, refuses to be transparent when it comes to their finances.\u00a0 The Lakeland Gazette has asked for its current financial documents three… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDRcL0V4Y3V0aXZlLURpcmVjdG9yLU1hcmlhLUNydXotUGhvdG8tQ3JlZGl0LUdsb3JpbWFyLVBob3RvZ3JhcGh5LndlYnA_Zml0PTMzNSUyQzM1MSZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IlRhbGJvdCBIb3VzZSBNaW5pc3RyaWVzIG5lZWRzIHRvIGJlIG1vcmUgdHJhbnNwYXJlbnQiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.iRzNyNN1n6X03NJG8Pxq_3xT6aq6LG8rVfTFcRpU-WsMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA0XC9FeGN1dGl2ZS1EaXJlY3Rvci1NYXJpYS1DcnV6LVBob3RvLUNyZWRpdC1HbG9yaW1hci1QaG90b2dyYXBoeS53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiVGFsYm90IEhvdXNlIE1pbmlzdHJpZXMgbmVlZHMgdG8gYmUgbW9yZSB0cmFuc3BhcmVudCIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.s1m9mFUdOXLnLrQWURDrRT_AzFvS3oKIsKc24Ky4G0MMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[14382],"class_list":["post-64732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-talbot-house-ministries-needs-to-be-more-transparent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64740,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64732\/revisions\/64740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}