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The fire rescue department stated it is committed to a thorough and impartial review of the matter<\/h3>\n\n\n
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An Orange County Fire Rescue battalion chief has been relieved of duty after being arrested on a prostitution-related charge. Steven Sherrill was arrested on Aug. 21 by the Altamonte Springs Police Department on a first-degree misdemeanor charge of procuring for prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the arrest, Sherrill was relieved of duty without pay pending the outcome of an internal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, Orange County Fire Rescue said it takes matters involving employee conduct seriously and is committed to a thorough, impartial review of the circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fire rescue department stated it is committed to a thorough and impartial review of the matter An Orange County Fire Rescue battalion chief has been relieved of duty after… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77447,"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":"","_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":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDhcL2ltYWdlcy04LTEud2VicD9maXQ9NDAxJTJDNDk4JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiT0NGUiBCYXR0YWxpb24gY2hpZWYgc3VzcGVuZGVkIGZvbGxvd2luZyBwcm9zdGl0dXRpb24gY2hhcmdlIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.rPOlVQ9Dov2nebmbAAsClZeiwwhY6b9onhYHQFnAy5gMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA4XC9pbWFnZXMtOC0xLndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJPQ0ZSIEJhdHRhbGlvbiBjaGllZiBzdXNwZW5kZWQgZm9sbG93aW5nIHByb3N0aXR1dGlvbiBjaGFyZ2UiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.f0azJ8RfZ92bhRGu8u_1jeIPvAH_L_2uYx2WY55-iIkMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[16554,16550,16556,15267,16555,16548,16551,16549],"class_list":["post-77446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-altamonte-springs-police-department","tag-battalion-chief","tag-employee-misconduct","tag-florida-news","tag-ocfr","tag-orange-county-fire-rescue","tag-prostitution-charge","tag-steven-sherrill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77446","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=77446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77448,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77446\/revisions\/77448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}