Lake Placid Police Department

Contact

Chief

Chief of Police Mark J. Schneider

Address

Lake Placid, FL

Phone

(863) 699-3759

Mailing address

8 N. Oak Avenue, Lake Placid, Florida 33852

Fax

(863) 699-3760

Source: Florida police department directory, September 4, 2025. Leadership may have changed since.

How to file a complaint

Complaint process not yet documented.

General guide to filing a complaint

Records portal

No online records portal listed.

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Officers

• Mostyn Mullins

  Sergeant

Incidents

• Lake Placid sergeant tells sign holder he cannot panhandle on public sidewalk

  December 10, 2024 · Lake Placid Police Department · Lake Placid, FL

  A business owner called dispatch about a man with a sign outside Journal Plaza and asked whether it was a violation. The caller asked for a call back from an officer first. A sergeant then approached the man holding the sign and said there was no panhandling in town limits and that it was town property. The man said he was engaged in protected speech on a public sidewalk. The sergeant told him not to push his buttons and said it would not end well. The video ends the encounter with no arrest or citation shown. A demand letter read later in the video says the police department mandated additional training for the sergeant.

Public records

• other

  Demand letter to City of Lake Placid regarding ordinance 107-6

  Southern Legal Counsel, on behalf of the man filming, sent a letter to the Lake Placid mayor and city commissioners stating that city ordinance 107-6 unconstitutionally restricts protected speech and asking the city to repeal it. This is a legal demand letter, not a lawsuit or court ruling. The letter is read and quoted in the linked video.

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• discipline

  Internal investigation found policy violations; training required

  December 19, 2024

  According to the department memo dated December 19, 2024, as quoted in the published video description, the internal investigation found policy violations that were not malicious and required training on homeless populations, public recording and First Amendment auditors, including FBI-LEEDA training beginning January 21, 2025. The recorded administrative interview is published in the linked video.

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