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The government of Miami-Dade County is defined and authorized under the Constitution of Florida, Florida law, and the Home Rule Charter of Miami-Dade County. [1] Since its formation in 1957, Miami-Dade County, Florida has had a two-tier system of government. Under this system, Miami-Dade comprises a large unincorporated area and 34 incorporated ...
12086. GNIS feature ID. 295755. Website. www.miamidade.gov. Miami-Dade County (/ maɪˈæmiˈdeɪd /) is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, [ 4 ] making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the United ...
Website. www.miamidade.gov /police. The Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), formerly known as the Dade County Sheriff's Office (1836–1957), Dade County Public Safety Department (1957–1981), and the Metro-Dade Police Department (1981–1997), is a law enforcement agency serving Miami-Dade County. The MDPD has approximately 4,700 employees ...
Well before messing up compensation for county commissioners, Miami-Dade’s payroll arm was over-paying hundreds of employees a month after the launch of a $66 million administrative software system.
Miami-Dade Transit, a county department of more than 4,000 employees, is the largest transit agency in the state of Florida and accounts for more than half of the trips taken on public transit in the state. MDT operates an accessible, integrated system of 93-plus Metrobus routes; the 22-mile (35 km) Metrorail rapid transit system; Metromover, a ...
Harvey Ruvin started his political career in the 1960s, and that’s when Miami-Dade County’s veteran clerk of the courts picked up his favorite song, too — a hit by the Youngbloods with the ...
The married father of four, including a two-month-old, won his first Town Council race in 2012 at the age of 29, two years before Levine Cava won her South Miami-Dade seat on the County Commission.
The Miami-Dade Fire Department is the founding member of one of Florida's two FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force. [7] Florida Task Force 1 (FL-TF1) is available to respond to natural or man-made disasters around the county and world and assist with search and rescue, medical support, damage assessment and communications. [8]