It starts with a demand that a low-level city employee produce a public record on the spot. Or with an email to a private company demanding invoices relating to a public agency. Often, it ends with a lawsuit. For more than a year, government officials all over Florida and the vendors they do business with […]
Editor’s Note: Contracted phone services skirt public records law, The Coastal Star
Let me say up front that this is not about the former Ocean Ridge police chief. It is not even about what led up to his more-than-$80,000 settlement with the town. This is about the right of taxpayers to know how the government they support operates. It should be simple: File a public records request […]
