In The Media

The Hillsborough County Chapter of the NAACP celebrated 100 years of service to the community by holding its Freedom Fund Dinner on February 8, 2018 in downtown Tampa. Tampa Trial Lawyer Tom Scarritt was named Honorary Chairman for the event, which drew over...

Attorney Tom Scarritt was featured in a recent article in the "Holiday Section” of "La Gaceta," the country's only trilingual newspaper, concerning his favorite Christmas memories.

Tampa lawyer Tom Scarritt served as Master of Ceremonies for the Fortieth Anniversary Southern Legal Counsel Banquet held on October 21, 2017 in Gainesville, Florida. Mr. Morris Dees, the founder of Southern Poverty Legal Center, was the keynote speaker...

No, not Tom Skerritt — that’s the rugged-hero movie guy from Top Gun and Steel Magnolias. This is Tom Scarritt, Tampa lawyer and activist and real-life hero guy: the man who led the crusade to take down the Civil War monument in Tampa and...

While most people were focusing on getting their power restored and cleaning up debris after Hurricane Irma barreled through the region, a maintenance crew hired by Hillsborough County physically removed the controversial 106-year-old Confederate monument that has stood in front of the county courthouse...

So what do you do with more than 30 grand in goodwill from your friends and neighbors, the happy result of citizens doing the job of their elected officials? In our own messy contribution to a conversation going on across America, Hillsborough County commissioners last month tied themselves in knots over moving a divisive Confederate soldier monument from outside a public courthouse to...

Hillsborough County commissioners gave an ultimatum to the people who want a Confederate monument moved from downtown Tampa: Raise half the money yourselves or it stays. You have 30 days. It took 24 hours. A campaign to relocate the statue topped $180,000 by Thursday afternoon, well past the $140,000 goal, confirmed Tom Scarritt, the Tampa lawyer who organized the...

The violence in Charlottesville, Va., crystallized for much of the nation the danger of refusing to address painful symbols of the past. But not so in Hillsborough County, where the County Commission on Wednesday reversed itself yet again and left open the possibility of leaving a Confederate monument outside the downtown courthouse. This was a monumental display of cowardice by four Republicans indifferent to the need for moral leadership in this...