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Sheriff Candidate Wayne Ivey
The Amber Alert ticker which crawls atop this page, is a big part of the resume Wayne Ivey offers in his bid for Sheriff.
The AMBER alert was instituted in 2002 as a system to notify the public after a child has been abducted. Following the 2004 kidnapping and murder of Sarasota girl, Carlie Bruscia, police realized that alerting the public rapidly, through media and other means, was not enough. Ivey was part of the group that developed the Child Abduction Response Team (C.A.R.T.). The system marshals specially-trained professionals, including police and other first responders, who react instantly to the alert. The program has been adopted nationwide through the Department of Justice.
A former Resident Agent in Charge with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and over thirty-one years of law enforcement experience, Ivey is one of six candidates running for the job of Sheriff of Brevard County. Ivey, a Republican, has been endorsed by Sheriff Jack Parker as well as a number of Brevard Police Chiefs. Parker is retiring at the end of his term.
Joining Ivey on the Republican ticket is Sgt. Gary Harrel, an eighteen-year veteran of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and fellow Deputy, Lt. Todd Maddox, who has performed a variety of roles in his twenty-one years with the Sheriff’s Office.
Corrections officer Mark Orndoff is running as a Democrat. Orndoff has served as a municipal police officer for West Melbourne and Melbourne Beach Police Departments. Deputy Sheriff Adrian Moss Beasley, also a Democrat, has also announced for the top cop post. A fourteen-year, veteran Deputy, Ernest Cathy, is running as an independent.