{"id":10992,"date":"2011-10-27T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10992"},"modified":"2011-10-27T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T18:30:02","slug":"you-tube-fights-draw-housing-officials%e2%80%99-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10992","title":{"rendered":"You Tube Fights Draw Housing Officials\u2019 Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Housing Authority CEO, <strong>Jerome Ryans<\/strong>, said he\u2019s not very computer savvy, and has never been interested in Twitter, You Tube, Facebook, and the other sites that seem to draw so much attention.<\/p>\n<p>However, a few weeks ago, acting on the suggestion of a staff member, <strong>Ryans<\/strong> pulled up a site and said there were videos of fights occurring in public housing areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryans<\/strong> said a lot of the fights are by females.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time these websites are monitored and we need to let our residents know if they are involved in this activity, there will be serious consequences. I saw one where a young woman was swinging a golf club as others cheered on. We don\u2019t need this kind of image on any of our properties. This stuff is degrading and very upsetting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryans<\/strong> said he\u2019s monitoring the incidents and dealing with the people involved. He said \u201cOne Strike\u201d may come into play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryans<\/strong> said no one has been evicted because of the You Tube fights, but over the next few weeks, if the activity continues, action will be taken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve told my managers to serve notice on the players that there will be action taken. We have to put our foot down and start threatening these people by removing their livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, parents need to start being parents and not friends with their children. We have great kids living in public housing and they don\u2019t deserve this kind of foolishness disrupting their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>T.H.A. also has been running \u201cAn Open Letter To All Tampa Housing Authority Residents,\u201d with the hope of getting the incidents to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer Tampa Housing Authority CEO, Jerome Ryans, said he\u2019s not very computer savvy, and has never been interested in Twitter, You Tube, Facebook, and the other sites that seem to draw so much attention. However, a few weeks ago, acting on the suggestion of a staff member, Ryans pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}