2015 Government-in-the-Sunshine Manual Now Available for Pre-Publications Orders! The 2015 edition of the Government-in-the-Sunshine Manual (vol. 37) is now available for pre-publication orders. You can preorder the manual by calling our office or by downloading the order form from our
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A new scam: Public records shakedown – The Florida Bar News
Bills filed to prevent more abuses Strapping a video camera around his neck, Jeffrey Marcus Gray entered the offices of Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida on June 16, and secretly recorded conversations with employees. The room was where people
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Andy Marlette Cartoon – Pensacola News Journal
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Calls for FDLE investigations grow as Gov. Rick Scott continues to avoid questions – Tampa Bay Times
As Gov. Rick Scott on Friday continued to brush off questions about allegations of political meddling made by the state’s former top law enforcement officer, pressure mounted elsewhere in Florida to get answers. A Land O’Lakes man filed a formal
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There’s a Lesson in Baileygate and Allegations of FDLE Meddling – Sunshine State News
There’s an invisible layer of high-level government business conducted every day in the Florida Capitol, a subsurface of information-share that hums along office-to-office, out of the public’s earshot and out of the sunshine. Some of it is constitutional, some isn’t.
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Commissioner Cole denies Sunshine Law allegation – Santa Rosa’s Press Gazette
Santa Rosa County Commissioner Bob Cole denies he violated Florida’s Sunshine Law at a recent Downtown Milton Redevelopment Advisory Board meeting. “I found out it isn’t a violation, so I’m not going to worry about it,” he said. It appears
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Andy Marlette Cartoon – Pensacola News Journal
Sobel doubts ability of admnistration to do transparent review of child deaths – Naked Politics
Frustrated that state officials have scrubbed crucial, and often embarrassing, details from a state report on children who have died from abuse, the head of the key Senate oversight committee said Thursday that it may be time to take the
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Florida AG joins scrutiny of governor’s actions in FDLE firing – Miami Herald
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said there are “serious questions” over how the state’s law-enforcement chief was ousted from his job by employees of Gov. Rick Scott. Bondi indicated she didn’t know all the facts of what happened to former
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Governor holds secret meeting with gambling execs – Naked Politics
The top executives of seven of South Florida gambling venues traveled to Tallahassee Wednesday to have a pre-arranged, closed-door meeting with Gov. Rick Scott who, in keeping with his un-even policies on transparency, kept it off his public agenda. The
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