West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) She was only 7 weeks old, weighed a mere 10 pounds, and had just had delicate surgery to widen a narrowing in her aorta, the vessel that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. If that wasn’t enough, after the surgery, Layla McCarthy stopped moving her […]
Florida’s public-records law is strong. Here are 5 ways lawmakers want to weaken it – Columbia Journalism Review
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 […]
Lucy Morgan: Putting the ‘public’ back in public office – Tampa Bay Times
Some governors are slow learners. Gov. Rick Scott is beyond slow. He doesn’t learn. He doesn’t appear to care about public access to records, meetings and information traditionally available to Floridians. Most governors have a bit of trouble getting used to working in the fishbowl of state government, particularly if they won election without stopping […]
