FCSO employees donate $25,645 to Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches

FCSO employees have donated over $158,000 to the FSYR since 2017.

By Observer Staff
| 6:30 p.m. July 24, 2023

Sheriff Rick Staly presents a check of almost $26,000 from FCSO employees to the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches' Executive Vice President Maria Knapp and Levy County Sheriff and FSYR Board Chair Bobby McCallom. Photo courtesy of the FCSO

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Flagler County Sheriff’s Office employees have donated $25,645 to the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches in 2023.

Since 2017, FCSO employees have donated over $158,000 to the FSYR, according to a press release from the FCSO.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly presented the donation check to FSYR Executive Vice President Maria Knapp and Levy County Sheriff and FSYR Board Chair Bobby McCallom on July 24 during the Florida Sheriffs Association meeting.

“Our agency and I have supported the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches for many years,” Staly said. “I am very proud of the men and women of FCSO, who not only support our children and youth locally, but donate to the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches as part of the Flagler Sheriff’s Children’s Charities."

The FSYR, founded in 1957, works to improve the lives of at-risk children and is credited with helping more than 173,000 children and families, the press release said.

Staly has served on the FSYR Board of Directors for the past six years and now serves as its immediate past chair.