Pulse Families and Survivors for Justice

08/29/2026

Like we always said.... the Police Foundation report was never an investigation conducted by the DOJ. This PULSE "after-action review" has been inaccurately characterized by government officials for the past decade. Now, we have it straight from the horses' mouth. This is what we have been saying all along.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer needs to stop lying to the public and making false claims that this was an investigation. It was not and has no legal merit. He's a lawyer. He knows this. But he does it anyway to cover his own leadership failures.

The Police Foundation was renamed to the National Police Institute in 2022.

08/29/2026

The onePULSE Foundation, Visit Orlando, and the Hope Florida Foundation all have one thing in common.... a GrayRobinson attorney.

Read this until the very end. You'll be shocked to see where your tax dollars go.

A Handful of Attorneys, Multiple Nonprofits, One Firm, and a Lot of Taxpayer Money

08/28/2026

We are still seeking police body camera footage that has been inappropriately redacted and withheld from the public by the City of Orlando - Government. The City now claims all requests for video will take at least 12 months to fulfill.

Body cam footage from Edgewood Police Officer Derek Myles in respon...

08/28/2026

The City of Orlando - Government really doesn't want records to get out. They will not only nickel and dime you every step of the way, but they will also take a full year to fulfill the request. Why does a request for 10 seconds of video footage require "extensive use of information technology resources"?

This is purposeful leadership failure.

Representative Anna V. Eskamani

08/28/2026

This is the kind of shamelessness that results from the lack of accountability.

08/27/2026

The fight is not over.

The City’s refusal to provide public transparency has led to a new legal fight for PULSE records.

08/25/2026

You might wonder what this has to do with PULSE.

Google Craig Mateer—the employer of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's son, Trey.

This is an example of welcomed State intervention so the Mayor's friends do not destroy the City's history for profit. Let's see what the Mayor and his selected Commissioners are going to do about this.

Mateer owns numerous properties on Church Street and his prior attempt to destroy the historic train station was only stopped by the Historic Preservation Board. He is the brother of city attorney Jody Litchford. He was asked by City Attorney Mayanne Downs to purchase the properties adjacent to Pulse Orlando—injecting $1M into the onePULSE Foundation, bailing them out of debt, and preventing an audit of the nonprofit—which was being led by her GrayRobinson employee and the Mayor's friend Earl Crittenden.

This is what corruption looks like. It's the definition of it. Sheehan was part of this, as well as the coverup of the unpermitted renovations and code violations at PULSE that she claims the City knew nothing about—despite being the City of Orlando - Government herself and staying silent outside of private conversations.

Commissioner Patty Sheehan Tony Ortiz District 2 Commissioner

https://orlandoshine.com/florida-gives-orlando-180-days-to-fix-historic-preservation-moratorium-or-risk-losing-certification/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT6qrtwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMXZDQ1JISGloSldpeTFaZUFzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe762GBaDW31gN8hbqahXzen235RZS-GV25_s_JGTeHCdfTs7QgdZXeNYqyLw_aem_iA6QO3OzyNI-mQ0RH0qTOA

The Florida Department of State has notified Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer that the city’s 36-month historic preservation moratorium violates the state’s Certified Local Government program, and has given the city 180 days to fix the violation or risk losing its certification and access to federal his...

08/24/2026

The photos taken by the Office of the State Attorney, Monique Worrell prior to PULSE's demolition show additional unpermitted renovations (illegally wallled over windows and doors) that prior photographs taken by the City of Orlando - Government FAILED to document.

They also show the LACK of emergency hardware on designated EXITS, which were not real exits at all as they led out to enclosed areas.

Does any of this look like it was done to code? It wasn't and that's obvious to the average person. No code enforcement background needed.

Survivors were never interviewed about these issues.
No independent investigation was ever conducted.

08/23/2026

For years, Kate Maini and others in the Poma/PULSE employee group harassed us, lied about us, and publicly demeaned us as they defended their employers—Barbara and Rosario Poma—the former co-owners of PULSE.

Now, people in our community are seeing how these folks put loyalty over morality. These are disturbing posts circulating online, and appear to show that Maini recently supported a local child sexual predator. This is years after she supported a negligent bar owner who is responsible for the unpermitted renovations and code violations that hindered escape and rescue, as well as security negligence. This is thoroughly documented in the public records, which we have posted for years.

As a reminder, Kowalczyk entered the plea of Count Two of the Superseding Indictment. The count is punishable by a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of ten years up to life imprisonment, a maximum fine of $250,000, a term of supervised release of at least five years up to life and a special assessment of $100 per felony count.

Again, these are posts circulating on Facebook. We are sharing them here because the community needs to understand the depravity of those in the PULSE/Poma orbit, which includes Mayor Buddy Dyer and Commissioner Patty Sheehan.

This is disturbing stuff. Maini is now a local realtor.