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Collier Sheriff's Office

  • Commissioner Bill McDaniel, District 5, looks at some of the items from the time capsule that is now on display at the Collier Museum at Government Center, Naples. Three time capsules were opened to help celebrate 100 years of Collier County Government. The Collier County Bicentennial Memorial Time Capsule was dedicated July 7, 1976, to commemorate the Bicentennial Year of the United States of America. It was opened July 7, 2023, the 100th Anniversary of Collier County. The Sheriff’s Time Capsule was sealed on the 75th Anniversary of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. It also was opened on July 7, 2023, by the elected Sheriff in celebration of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office 100th Anniversary. The third capsule was the Viva Florida Time Capsule. It was dedicated by the Collier County Public Library on May 8, 2013, in celebration of the 90th Anniversary of Collier County and Viva Florida 500, to be opened on the 100th Anniversary of Collier County in 2023.
    Human Interest
    Collier County offices open up the past to celebrate 100 years
    WGCU Staff
    Time capsules were opened to celebrate county and sheriff's office anniversaries.
  • Rosemary Zore and Michael Randall, the married couple running the Naples-based nonprofit Robert L. Zore Foundation, also known as Fallen Officers, face felony charges stemming from their handling of the charity.
    Heads of Collier County charity that honors slain cops arrested; founder charged with embezzlement
    Francisco Alvarado
    On Tuesday, June 21, Rosemary Zore, President of the Robert L. Zore Foundation, was charged with embezzling from the non-profit she formed in 2018A husband-and-wife team steering a Naples-based non-profit organization formed to benefit the families of fallen police officers has been hit with felony criminal charges related to the charity.The state Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) also charged Zore with failing to properly register the foundation with the state. Her husband, Michael Randall, faces a single felony charge of failing to register as a professional solicitor after he took a cut of the proceeds from donations he raised while serving as vice president for the charity, which is also known as Fallen Officers.The OALE investigation was launched after inquiries about the charity from the Florida Center for Government Accountability and WGCU Public Media, which published a joint report in April revealing that Fallen Officers had not registered with the state as required by law and had failed to meet federal and state requirements for tax exempt status.