It’s something of a springtime ritual: Florida legislators pushing bills designed to limit the state’s public-records law, long considered one of the strongest in the country. This year, lawmakers have filed more than three dozen bills to create exemptions in the expansive law—prompting some attentive coverage from the state press corps, and some pushback from […]
Editorial: Dark clouds over government in the sunshine – Tampa Bay Times
There are the familiar, such as the annual attempt to keep secret the names of applicants to become university presidents. There are the new, such as the broad public records exemption sought for videos from body cameras worn by police. There are the unnecessary, such as efforts to keep email addresses secret. And there are […]
Credit card hides Fla. insurance chief’s bills – The Tampa Tribune
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty uses a credit card issued to him by an outside insurance group to fund travel, enabling him to avoid state transparency requirements on bills he racks up traveling the globe to industry-related conferences and events. It is not uncommon for the heads of state departments and agencies to travel to […]
