Where there are lawmakers, there will be lobbyists. That is just a fact of legislative life. But what shouldn’t be a fact is not knowing how lobbyists are spending millions of dollars to influence our state legislators. Unfortunately, according to a new survey from the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based public interest watchdog group, Florida […]
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An attempt by Florida’s new prisons chief to keep investigators from discussing what’s going on inside the state’s troubled prison system has sparked a lawsuit. An attorney representing six Corrections Department employees asked a judge this week to block a new confidentiality policy ordered by Secretary Julie Jones. Tallahassee attorney Steve Andrews maintains in the […]