The Gainesville Sun by Ryan Dailey February 17, 2021 TALLAHASSEE — A proposal that would provide a public-records exemption for “personal identifying information” about people applying to become state college and university presidents is advancing in the Florida Senate. Sen. Jeff Brandes, a St. Petersburg Republican who is sponsoring the measure (SB 220), said it is […]
Miami Herald journalists receive Open Government Reporting award for ‘Perversion of Justice’
Herald-Mail Media.com by Bianca Padro Ocasio Miami Herald (TNS) November, 30, 2020 MIAMI — The Miami Herald’s “Perversion of Justice” investigative series, which detailed Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking crimes and years of deferred justice for dozens of abuse victims, won the 2020 First Amendment Foundation’s Lucy Morgan Award for Open Government Reporting. […]
Coronavirus should bring a season of transparency PAMELA C. MARSH
The Daytona Beach News-Journal by Pamela C. Marsh, President of First Amendment Foundation April 15, 2020 If you aspired to be a great leader, would you send your team into harm’s way with incomplete or inaccurate information? What would happen if you withheld important facts that could have saved lives or changed the outcome? When […]
