THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, September 3, 2015…… Steve Andrews, a perennial thorn-in-the-side of Gov. Rick Scott and his administration, popped up again recently in one of the Tallahassee lawyer’s more obscure public-records requests, this time regarding pot. Andrews has garnered a reputation within and outside of Scott’s inner circle for his requests for documents accessible to […]
Child welfare officials on defensive over child death ‘transparency’ – Tampa Bay Times
Florida’s top child welfare officials were on the defensive before a House committee on Wednesday as they defended an annual report on child deaths that had been stripped of data and embarrassing details about the state’s role in failing to protect the children whose lives were lost. Secretary of the Department of Health John Armstrong told the […]
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 job away from the administration. “It seems they are less transparent that they have been […]