Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
I'm again trying to get documents relating to the law library, from the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners. So, this means that any records the County Commissioners have relating to the Pinellas County Law Library.
Chief Judge Shawn Crane seems to be filing Administrative Orders, relating to the law library, like a mad man. Mind you, he has no authority to do so, but all of a sudden documents are showing up that seems to give him the authority. To me, it looks like a straight up act of fraud.
The man in the video wanted to know exactly what I had and the exact dates, during a previous visit to the Board's Records department. His questions, demeanor and attitude were very different from those of the clerk I had dealt with before, Docia. After, this man, Chris Ewes (? - last name), questions me with such specifics and was hell bent on his claim that he couldn't get me the docs for weeks (again, during my first encounter with him, not this one), there came a flurry of docs backing up Chief Judge Crane's lame claim that the board relinquished all authority to him - so.... I guess Crane is claiming the board operates as his sock puppets.
What's going on? Crane does not control the Pinellas County Law Library Board of Trustees, so why is the board letting him get away with this? I'm actually not too sure the board as a whole is aware of the shenanigans. It seems much more likely that just the now suddenly resigned and retired Judge Jirotka, Chief Judge Crane and no-longer-working-at-the-law-library-after-12-years-of-service Stephanie Michelle Howard did it behind the board's back. The man in this video seems to be stooging for them. I could be wrong.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments...
VID 20250616 100303142
I'm again trying to get documents relating to the law library, from the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners. So, this means that any records the County Commissioners have relating to the Pinellas County Law Library.
Chief Judge Shawn Crane seems to be filing Administrative Orders, relating to the law library, like a mad man. Mind you, he has no authority to do so, but all of a sudden documents are showing up that seems to give him the authority. To me, it looks like a straight up act of fraud.
The man in the video wanted to know exactly what I had and the exact dates, during a previous visit to the Board's Records department. His questions, demeanor and attitude were very different from those of the clerk I had dealt with before, Docia. After, this man, Chris Ewes (? - last name), questions me with such specifics and was hell bent on his claim that he couldn't get me the docs for weeks (again, during my first encounter with him, not this one), there came a flurry of docs backing up Chief Judge Crane's lame claim that the board relinquished all authority to him - so.... I guess Crane is claiming the board operates as his sock puppets.
What's going on? Crane does not control the Pinellas County Law Library Board of Trustees, so why is the board letting him get away with this? I'm actually not too sure the board as a whole is aware of the shenanigans. It seems much more likely that just the now suddenly resigned and retired Judge Jirotka, Chief Judge Crane and no-longer-working-at-the-law-library-after-12-years-of-service Stephanie Michelle Howard did it behind the board's back. The man in this video seems to be stooging for them. I could be wrong.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments...
VID 20250616 100303142
