{"id":3762,"date":"2009-09-17T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T15:39:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-17T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T15:39:40","slug":"openly-lesbian-mom-announced-as-tampa-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2009\/09\/openly-lesbian-mom-announced-as-tampa-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Openly lesbian mom announced as Tampa police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/publicsafety\/tampas-mayor-names-citys-first-ever-woman-police-chief\/1036669\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tampabay.com<\/strong><\/a> reports that Jane Castor &#8211; an openly lesbian mother of two &#8211; has been appointed Tampa Florida&#8217;s first female police chief.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Pam Iorio made the announcement during a morning news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Castor&#8217;s promotion is significant because she&#8217;s openly gay &#8211; and she&#8217;s served for more than six years as a liaison to Tampa&#8217;s gay and lesbian community.  Brian Winfield, spokesman for <a href=\"http:\/\/eqfl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Equality Florida<\/strong><\/a>, said it was that communication that eventually helped police identify a suspect in the 2003 murders of two gay men.<\/p>\n<p>According to the St. Petersburg Times, she&#8217;s the mother of two boys, both age 10.<\/p>\n<p>Caster joined the Tampa department in 1984.  She worked in the narcotics bureau and the sex crimes and child abuse squad in the mid 1990s.  By 2001, Castor was a major in charge of multiagency drug investigations. 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