By John Kennedy and Jane Musgrave TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers are poised to make another attempt at limiting the lucrative industry of suing for public records — a tactic that some public officials in Palm Beach County claim drives Gulf Stream resident Martin O’Boyle. [Read More]
Lawsuits from public records group are a nuisance, Florida cities say – Tampa Bay Times
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 […]
A new scam: Public records shakedown – The Florida Bar News
Bills filed to prevent more abuses Strapping a video camera around his neck, Jeffrey Marcus Gray entered the offices of Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida on June 16, and secretly recorded conversations with employees. The room was where people in need of housing or mental health services or those suffering from AIDS waited for […]
