C.J. Caramella for reason.com January 2018 Issue Oregon resident Kim Sordyl had a hunch. The outspoken education activist thought Portland Public Schools might be using lengthy and expensive paid leaves to avoid firing problem employees. So she filed a public records request, looking for data to back up her suspicion. Instead of forking over the […]
Bad legislation limits public access to meetings
News-Press by Tom Hayden January 9, 2018 Byron Donalds, R-Naples, who represents parts of Collier and Hendry counties in the Florida House, is playing a little game of hide and seek with our open meetings laws. Last year, he failed to get a bill passed that would have allowed two elected members of a governing body to […]
Sunshine Scorecard 2017
About the Sunshine Scorecard: The scoring system for the Florida Society of News Editors assigns points for a list of critical government openness bills. Legislators get three points for a floor vote, seven points for co-sponsoring a bill and 10 points for sponsoring a bill that’s on the list. Votes against openness lose points; votes […]