Section of I-10 dedicated to former MPD officer

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. By an act of the Florida Legislature, a five-mile stretch of Interstate 10 in Jefferson County is now designated as the Senior Inspector Rita Jane Hall Memorial Highway. Hall, who was killed in a traffic accident in 2018 at age 59, was a longtime law-enforcement officer, a former Monticello Police Department (MPD) officer, and a Jefferson County resident. The legislators’ action came in response to a resolution adopted by the Jefferson County Commission in November 2021 requesting the designation. On Thursday evening, Dec. 7, Sheriff Mac McNeill, who was instrumental in the effort to get the section of I-10 designated, unveiled one of the signs tha