Despite unanimous public opposition, the Florida House Education Committee has advanced a bill to exempt university and college president and provost searches from the state’s Sunshine laws. HB 223 would keep all applicants for the high profile jobs private while search firms or committees narrow the group to a finalist pool. That group of finalists would […]
Florida’s public-records law is strong. Here are 5 ways lawmakers want to weaken it – Columbia Journalism Review
It’s something of a springtime ritual: Florida legislators pushing bills designed to limit the state’s public-records law, long considered one of the strongest in the country. This year, lawmakers have filed more than three dozen bills to create exemptions in the expansive law—prompting some attentive coverage from the state press corps, and some pushback from […]
Editorial: Scott needs to address questions raised by FDLE chief’s firing – The Tampa Tribune
Gov. Rick Scott is sorely mistaken if he thinks a steady stream of press releases is going to quiet the growing scandal over the forced ouster of former Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey. The firing has raised fundamental questions about the public’s right to know how its government operates, and Scott must […]
