TC Palm Editorial November 2, 2017 Florida residents are lucky. We’re guaranteed access to public records by some of the strongest sunshine laws in the country. Those laws help expose corruption and track how taxpayer money is spent. But a new proposal to amend the Florida Constitution stands to dilute our access to those records — purportedly in […]
Archives for November 3, 2017
Miami tells media to stop showing photos of firefighters fired in noose incident after inadvertent release
Miami Herald by David Smiley November 3, 2017 After releasing the pictures of six firefighters fired over an incident in which someone hung a noose over a black lieutenant’s family photos inside a fire station, the city of Miami is now demanding that the media stop showing their pictures. Just after midnight Friday morning, an […]
Appeal: How much information about 9/11 must FBI share with public?
Florida Bulldog by Dan Christensen October 17, 2017 A federal appeals court has been asked to overturn a Miami district court judge and order a Freedom of Information Act trial to determine whether the FBI made a proper search for records about its secretive 9/11 Review Commission. “This case presents a case of enormous public […]