Re: “Conduct city business with order and civility” (My View, March 28, Tallahassee Democrat). Mike Sittig is right. Local government commission meetings should be conducted in an orderly and civil manner, and people should refrain from “launching off-topic personal attacks and spreading rumors about elected officials” at a public meeting. But to the extent the […]
Local Police in Florida Acting Like They’re the CIA (But They’re Not) | American Civil Liberties Union
By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 10:00am The City of Sunrise, Florida, tried to take a page from the CIA’s anti-transparency playbook last week when it responded to an ACLU public records request about its use of powerful cell phone location tracking gear by refusing to confirm or […]
Citizens chide City for policy on personal attacks – Tallahassee Democrat
No one’s mic got cut off at Wednesday’s City Commission meeting, but community outrage over a first-time use of an audio kill switch to restrict personal attacks could prompt a revision to the controversial policy. Commissioners, however, backed away from making any changes just yet. They heard from half a dozen speakers who chided them […]