Proposal Eliminates Ombudsman Program’s Monthly Public Meetings  This article originally ran in the Florida Current. http://www.thefloridacurrent.com/article.cfm?id=35760612 12/19/2013 Florida Current  By James Call A plan to reorganize the state’s ombudsman program for long-term care would eliminate local district councils and their
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The First Amendment Foundation is pleased to announce it will award Frank Denton, Editor, and The Florida Times-Union the James C. Adkins/Sunshine Litigation Award. The nomination for the award was based on Denton and The Florida Times-Union exceptional success protecting
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In the 2013 Session, House Bill 5401 amended Section 215.985, Florida Statutes to create the Transparency Florida Act User Experience Task Force (UETF). The primary mission of the Task Force was to, “develop and recommend a design for consolidating existing state-managed websites
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To be or not to be in the Sunshine? That was the question posed to Greater Pensacola Chamber board members Monday during a public meeting hosted by Gulf Power Co. The chamber’s dilemma — remain status quo and subject to
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Citing long lines outside the Supreme Court and the millions of Americans who are interested in, and affected by, the Court’s decisions but unable to see cases being argued, the new alliance of media and legal organizations from across the
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Sometimes, the process of self-government can be loud, boisterous and chaotic. Eighty people signed up to speak Tuesday during the public comment portion of a State Board of Educationmeeting in Orlando to adopt new academic standards for public schools. State Education
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Carrying out the death penalty is often the highest-profile function of state government. Yet Florida’s lethal injection procedure is both the most open and most secret. The Department of Corrections maintains a 13-page document on its website, detailing the injection
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A House panel last week grilled a Florida Department of Revenue official over whether or not committees housed within that department violated state Sunshine Laws. In one exchange during a Feb. 5 meeting of the usually low-key House Rulemaking Oversight
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If anyone should understand Florida’s public records law, it’s professors and officials at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Yet law professor and associate college dean Lyrissa Lidsky wrote an email this week that, in the most charitable
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Jacksonville’s Ethics Commission is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to spell out the reach of a law passed last year guaranteeing people’s right to speak at meetings of local government boards. Commission members want “to maximize the breadth of the
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