For his first two years in office, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown sometimes traveled on the dime of donors.
From now on, it’ll be taxpayers who pick up those bills.
The policy change came more than a year after city Ethics Director Carla Miller began questioning how Brown’s travel was being paid.
Brown was following the advice of General Counsel Cindy Laquidara, who believed travel expenses paid for by others were gifts to the city, not to Brown. But in March, the Florida Ethics Commission disagreed.
