Mayor-elect Donna Deegan’s administration is already getting to work on one of her main campaign promises: Resurrecting the Jacksonville Journey.
The Jacksonville Journey was started by Mayor John Peyton back in 2008, pitched as an effort to reduce crime on the front end through community engagement, literacy and reentry programs for offenders.The initiative largely fell apart under the Alvin Brown administration before being rebranded as the Jax Journey under Lenny Curry’s administration.
He’s also hoping to boost literacy programs, by offering additional training to teachers and staff at after school programs. “And get their input. And so, we want to be partners, not try and tell them how to do the policing,” Gentry said.
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