Fort Meade Recall Record 2026 recall petitions · the documents and the record
Updated August 2026

Three recall petitions were filed in Fort Meade. Here is the record.

Petitions to recall Mayor Jaret Landon Williams, Vice Mayor Petrina McCutchen, and Commissioner Matthew Taylor were filed and released by the Polk County Supervisor of Elections in response to public-records requests. This site publishes the grounds in the petitions’ own words, the Supervisor of Elections’ certified signature results and source documents, and a way to review the public record of who joined each recall committee by signing.

The petition grounds are allegations, not findings. The Supervisor of Elections certified the signature counts and stated the formula used to determine the required number. Its certification expressly does not determine the petitions’ legal validity or legal sufficiency.

What this site publishes

Where the material came from, and what it does and does not claim.

Source records

The Polk County Supervisor of Elections released the petitions, signature summaries, and August 14 certification in response to public-records requests. Petition grounds are transcribed verbatim. Signer entries cite the petition page from which they were transcribed, and the official-results sections link to the source documents.

What the record establishes

The petition grounds are allegations, not findings. The Supervisor of Elections certified signature counts, and this site compares those counts with the requirement stated in its certification. That certification expressly does not determine the petitions’ legal validity or legal sufficiency. We report each part of the record for what it establishes, and no more.

What we do not publish

We do not publish signers’ home addresses, dates of birth, contact information, or signature images, nor do we attach race, party, or age to a name. The complete petition pages are not posted because they contain that personal information. Committee membership is available through the site’s access process.

Corrections

Signer names were transcribed from handwriting and may contain errors. If an entry appears incorrect, send us the entry and the correction you believe the source record supports. We will compare it with the public records and document any correction. Send a correction.
Source documents

The three recall petitions

One petition was filed for each official. Open a petition to read the grounds it states word for word, the official’s response if one has been filed, and the record of official action on it.

These are allegations, not findings. The grounds are what the recall committee wrote on its petition. Nothing in them has been adjudicated, and this site has verified none of the claims.

Printed on all three petitions

  • All information on this form, including your signature, becomes a public record upon receipt by the Polk County Supervisor of Elections.
  • Upon signing this petition, you become part of the recall committee.
  • If all requested information on this form is not completed, the form will not be valid.
  • Only registered voters in the City of Fort Meade, Florida are eligible to sign this petition.

The second line is why this site can publish a signer’s name and what they signed: the petition tells signers the record is public and that signing joins the committee.
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Where this petition sits in the statutory process

Florida law sets the sequence for a municipal recall at Fla. Stat. §100.361. This marks the last stage the record shows as reached, not a prediction of the next one.

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Grounds stated on the petition

Transcribed word for word from the petition as released. These are the recall committee’s allegations. None has been adjudicated, and this site has verified none of them.

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Supervisor of Elections results

Only the Supervisor of Elections counts and certifies signatures. Its August 14 results are published here as that office’s figures, with the source documents in full. The numerical comparison applies the elector total and formula printed in the certification; it is not a finding about a petition’s legal sufficiency.

Figures reported by the Polk County Supervisor of Elections
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Record of official action

Every dated action this site can document, with the source it rests on. Where a date is absent, the record does not establish it and this site does not estimate.

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Actions are added as documents are obtained. An action absent here is not an action that did not happen.

Who joined this recall committee

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About these records

The Polk County Supervisor of Elections released these petition records in response to a public records request. We do not republish the original petition pages because they contain signers’ home addresses and dates of birth.

The Supervisor of Elections verified the signatures and certified the official counts reported here. This site reports those results and the public record behind them; it does not make independent claims about the petitions’ legal sufficiency.
Public record

Who joined the recall committees

The petitions identify each signer as a member of the recall committee for the official named. This page presents the names as transcribed from records released by the Polk County Supervisor of Elections, along with the petition signed, signing date, source page and precinct.

Printed on every petition page
“All information on this form, including your signature, becomes a public record upon receipt by the Polk County Supervisor of Elections. Upon signing this petition, you become part of the recall committee.”
About these entries

The names were transcribed from handwriting and may contain errors. Each entry identifies its petition page so it can be checked against the source record. If an entry is wrong, tell us.

Addresses, dates of birth, contact information and signature images are not published.

The committee membership list is released to verified requesters

The verbatim petition grounds and how the record was compiled are open to everyone, with no sign-in. Reading the committee membership list asks more of you: a name, a verified email address, the purpose of the request, and a signed certification that you will not use it to harass or intimidate anyone. It takes about a minute.

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Each row is one member of one or more of the three recall committees, per the petition language above. Precinct is the precinct recorded on that person’s voter registration in the records the Supervisor of Elections provided. A blank precinct means the entry has not been matched to a registration record. Each page reference can be checked against that page of the released petition. A small number of transcribed entries are too illegible to name, so they are not listed here.
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Matching works from the start of each name, so try fewer letters or the spelling used on official records. An absence here is not proof that a person did not sign or did not join a committee: some entries could not be matched to the registration records, and some petition handwriting is not legible.
Verified access

Request access to the petition signer lists

The searchable lists show the people whose names appear on each recall petition. They are available after a short access request. The grounds stated in the petitions remain open to everyone without signing in.

These are public records. The access step helps discourage misuse of residents' information and creates a record of each request. The emailed code confirms only that you control the address provided; it does not verify your name, affiliation, or stated purpose.

Who is asking

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Email address
We send a one-time code to confirm the address reaches you. That confirms you control the contact you gave us, nothing more: your name and affiliation are what you tell us, and we do not check them. A contact we cannot reach gets no access.
Why you need it

Terms of access

Both boxes are required. Your agreement is recorded with your name, verified contact, and the date and time.

What we do with what you give us

  • We keep your name, verified contact, affiliation, stated purpose, certification, and the date of the request.
  • We log which material an approved session accessed, so misuse can be traced back to a request.
  • Records are retained for 12 months, then deleted, unless a specific request is under legal review.
  • We do not sell, rent, or share this with the recall committee, the officials named in the petitions, the city, or any campaign. We will produce it in response to a subpoena or lawful order, and we will tell you if that happens unless we are barred from doing so.
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Corrections

Report a possible error

If an entry in the searchable records appears inaccurate, use this form to identify the entry and explain the possible error. We will compare the report with the available public source records. Submitting a report does not guarantee that the published entry will change.

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