The subpoena, first reported Tuesday, seeks records across nine categories, including communications about budget shortfalls, procurement and contracting records, executive compensation and expenditures, ridership and transit performance, board meeting records, audit warnings, sponsorships, and financial modeling used to determine service reductions and layoffs.

The State Attorney's investigation follows two years of deficit spending at JTA that forced layoffs and deep cuts to transit services. It is the third entity to probe the agency, joining the Florida Attorney General's office, which has issued three subpoenas over the past six weeks, and the City Council's Financial Audit and Oversight Select Committee, which has been examining how JTA's finances cratered.

The subpoena requests documents concerning "decisions to delay recording liabilities or change the timing of recognition of revenues or expenses," as well as records identifying when actual or projected shortfalls were communicated to JTA's executive leadership, board members, city officials, auditors, or funding agencies.

Specific contracts named in the subpoena include Mason Nye Murals, Dream Builders Communications, Team Pegine and the GEMS initiative, Gannett Fleming and TranSystems, wellness services provided by JTA to employees or board members, Jacobs Project Management Company, KL2 Connects LLC, and WSP USA. The subpoena also seeks information about contracts for the Neighborhood Autonomous Vehicle Innovation program, known as NAVI, the Skyway, the Bay Street Innovation Corridor, and the Ultimate Urban Circulator, or U2C program.

For the Mason Nye Murals contract, the subpoena specifically requests documents related to travel, lodging reimbursements, and "business justification records associated with the procurement or performance of that engagement."

The executive compensation category covers what JTA paid former CEO Nat Ford, interim CEO Cleveland Ferguson, and other top leadership team members. It seeks corporate card statements for travel and lodging, as well as documents justifying travel, training, and events, including international travel.

Regarding ridership, the subpoena demands records on different services including NAVI, the Skyway, and buses, along with the methodologies used to track ridership. It also seeks any directives, incentives, or timekeeping records for JTA employees or contractors to ride NAVI "for purposes of generating, measuring or reporting ridership" on the service, which loops through downtown on Bay Street and has struggled to attract riders since its launch in late June 2025.

The subpoena also requests records of board meetings and actions, along with internal communications about concerns regarding budgets, the agency's financial condition, procurement, transit performance, use of reserves, or any of the projects identified.

The final three areas covered are audit warnings and corrective action, all sponsorships and payments to outside organizations including JAXUSA Partnership, and the financial modeling used by JTA to determine service reductions and layoffs to close budget shortfalls.

The overlapping investigations signal growing scrutiny of JTA's management and spending decisions. The City Council committee recently heard testimony from a former JTA chief financial officer about what she observed in the agency's finances. The Attorney General's subpoenas, issued in late September and October, similarly targeted financial and contracting records.

For Jacksonville residents, the investigations come as transit services have already been reduced and jobs eliminated, raising questions about accountability for the agency's fiscal crisis. The State Attorney's subpoena does not indicate any criminal charges have been filed, but the breadth of records sought—from executive travel to ridership manipulation—suggests a comprehensive review of how JTA operated and communicated about its financial troubles.