Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet voted Tuesday to spend up to $50,000 in additional legal fees for an outside counsel to represent the Cabinet, the fifth named defendant in a lawsuit by more than a dozen news outlets over the ouster of former FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey. Scott and all three Cabinet members are […]
Sunshine Week: Keeping Records Accessible – TheLedger.com
This being Sunshine Week, it is easy to surrender to the urge to wail and moan over how many more exemptions the Florida Legislature will carve out of our vaunted open government laws this spring, thus sealing off more information to the public. As the First Amendment Foundation in Tallahassee has tabulated, lawmakers are entertaining […]
Gag Order in Sunshine State – Inside Higher ED
Administrators at a Florida community college are leaning on faculty and student journalists to prevent coverage of an ongoing labor dispute. In doing so, they are adopting a questionable interpretation of Florida law that could be used to squelch student journalism in high schools and colleges across the Sunshine State. Administrators at the 11,000-student Pensacola […]
