Where there are lawmakers, there will be lobbyists. That is just a fact of legislative life. But what shouldn’t be a fact is not knowing how lobbyists are spending millions of dollars to influence our state legislators. Unfortunately, according to a new survey from the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based public interest watchdog group, Florida […]
CAMERAS ON COPS A PRIVACY QUESTION, Tallahassee Democrat
Lawmakers throughout the USA are grappling with just how much the public is entitled to see when a police body camera has recorded a volatile or even mundane incident on video. Since the beginning of the year, lawmakers in at least 15 states and Washington, D.C., have introduced legislation that would limit release of footage […]
Government in the sunshine? – Tallahassee Democrat
On Tuesday, Florida House Republicans held a closed-door, no-outsiders-allowed meeting on the topic that looks like it’s going to send the Legislature into a special session: health care. You may ask: Isn’t that illegal? Doesn’t it violate the Sunshine Law? Turns out, the answer is no. While the Florida Constitution requires all meetings between two […]
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