Hampton, Florida is best known in north Florida as home to an infamous speed trap that issued $200,000 in tickets in one year for a two-block stretch of highway. But as the Orlando Sentinel recently reported, it may not be a town for much longer.
That’s because legislators plan to introduce legislation to dissolve the small town after a state audit found “widespread financial mismanagement” and numerous violations of city, state, and federal law. The violations included lost and missing public records, missing petty cash, unaccounted credit card charges, and missing personnel files and time sheets for town workers.
According to an NPR News report, many Florida municipalities, including Hampton, were created by statute in 1925 and can be dissolved by the legislature with the governor’s approval. Apparently Hampton would be the first.
