Over the years, Florida lawmakers have steadily chipped away at their constituents’ constitutional right of access to government by approving hundreds of exceptions to the state’s open-records and open-meetings laws. But now a couple of lawmakers are proposing to trade in their chisels for sledgehammers. [Read More]
Don’t make public pay for Scott’s sunshine suits – Orlando Sentinel
It’s easy to spend money — when it belongs to someone else. Just ask Gov. Rick Scott. The governor recently agreed to hand over $700,000 from taxpayers to settle seven lawsuits alleging that he and his staff violated Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law by creating private email accounts to skirt public-record requirements. Unfortunately, this […]
Transparency group call’s Scott’s ‘sunshine’ effort a failure – The Tampa Tribune
TALLAHASSEE – Project Sunburst, a public email-disclosure system started by Gov. Rick Scott after he took office in 2011, has been more of “a sunshine bust,” an open-government advocate said Thursday. The First Amendment Foundation, a Tallahassee-based watchdog group, sent an email to its members saying the system “has shed little light on the activities […]
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