It wasn’t a banner year for transparency in Florida government. Gov. Rick Scott went to California courts to fight releasing emails from private accounts while his re-election was underway. We learned how Republican political consultants conspired to thwart the 2010 Fair Districts anti-gerrymandering reforms. They got caught thanks to a legal challenge from voting-rights groups, but the […]
Florida keeping records under wraps – Miami Herald
It was a dark year for sunshine in Florida in 2014. Legal fights by Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican Party of Florida kept crucial documents under wraps long enough to dilute their impact once they were released. The governor took the state’s public records tradition a new direction as he used taxpayer money to […]
After All Redistricting Docs Are Unsealed, GOP Consulting Group Defends Practices – FCIR
The head of a GOP consulting group forced by court order to release documents showing his company may have been illegally used to redraw political districts, including evidence the company tried to hide its involvement by using third parties, is defending his and the company’s actions. Besides the release of 538 previously-leaked documents containing emails, […]
