About MAOS

MAOS focuses on truly important stories; stories of public interest having “moral clarity”, and is a collaborative experiment of technology and activism. Chaz Stevens, Genius is Editor in Chief.

Stevens, a tech-savvy public records expert and well-known blogger, is the face of the new media and a modern-day gadfly– electronically empowered, fighting the power structure with bits and bytes.

Winner of the 2010 New Times Activist of the Year award, Stevens have been appeared on the Sunday front pages, featured in countless articles, and guest on radio and TV. Chaz now is a frequent guest columnist for the New Times Broward Palm Beach.

From Wikipedia:

In 2012 an eight-foot-tall Festivus pole (made of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans) was placed on the front lawn of a city-owned firehouse in Deerfield Beach, Florida, near a Nativity scene and a menorah. The pole was the work of a local atheist [Chaz Stevens] who, after years of unsuccessfully trying to get the city to remove the religious symbols from its property, sought and received “permission to place an ‘anti-religious’ display” on city property.

Stevens, South Florida’s premier political corruption fighter, has over the years collected quite an assortment of firsts…

Notables:

• 2010 New Times Activist of the Year
• 2010 The Chaz
• 2012 Florida First Amendment Foundation Brigade

Press and Media:

• January 2013: Guest Column, New Times Broward Palm Beach
• May 2012: Boca Magazine “Faces”
• June 2012: Tampa Bay Times – The Buzz
• June 2012: National Journal – Hotline On Call
• June 2012: Roll Call – Heard on the Hill
• June 2012: Naples News
• June 2012: Tampa Bay Times – The Buzz
• June 2012: SaintPetersBlog – Sunburn

TV Coverage:

• June 2012: NBC-2 Fort Myers
• June 2012: ABC-7 Fort Myers
• June 2012: CBS12 West Palm Beach

Politicians:

• Arrests: 3
• Removed from office: 3
• Convicted: 2
• Pending trial: 1
• Pending appeal: 2
• Facing jail time: 1

Investigations:

• US Department of Justice OIG: 1
• US Department Housing and Urban Development OIG: 2
• US Department Housing and Urban Development: 1
• Federal Election Commission: 1
• Florida Department of Law Enforcement: 1
• Broward County SAO: lots and lots
• Broward County OIG: 1
• Palm Beach County SAO: n (?)
• Palm Beach County OIG: n (?)
• Florida Commission on Ethics: 2
• Florida Bar: 1

Legal:

• Cease and desist letters received: 7
• Number of times we’ve told them to “eat me”: 7
• Sued: 1
• Lawsuits that lasted more than three business hours: 0
• Threatened to be sued: lost count