Robby Hogan named Carrabelle police chief
Carrabelle Deputy Chief Robby Hogan was sworn in this afternoon as the city’s new police chief, following a unanimous vote by the city commission.
Following a motion by Mayor Brenda La Paz, and seconded by Tony Millender, the commission voted 4-0 to approve Hogan’s hire. Sebrina Brown, who was absent from the special meeting, had sent a note in support of Hogan’s appointment.
Following the vote, Hogan, 50, was sworn in by City Clerk Keisha Messer at about 1:40 p.m.
Hogan starts as chief on Friday, March 10.
He replaces Chief Kevin Shuman, who stepped down, effective March 3, after nearly two years on the job. Shuman resigned after being told by City Administrator Courtney Dempsey and City Attorney Dan Hartman that three commissioners wanted to replace him as chief of police.
“One (had) said they didn’t feel the job was right for me,” Shuman said he was told. “And that parking and golf cart issues were not handled the right way.”
He said that during later discussions with La Paz, and commissioners Keith Walden, Bill Gray, Millender and Brown. he was told that “I have not done anything wrong, nothing unethical, nothing criminal (but) they just wanted to move in a different direction.”
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.