About 8:25 a.m. Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott’s office emailed to reporters his daily schedule, which is a public record. Surprise. At 8:30 a.m., the governor would sign into law the 2015-16 state budget that the Legislature had just approved four days earlier and announce which projects he had vetoed. The Tampa Bay Times‘ capital bureau […]
Our View: A victory for open government – Panama City News Herald
Gov. Rick Scott’s firing of Gerald Bailey as commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement last year wasn’t just a political bungle. The way it was carried out violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the state’s open meeting laws. If anything good came out of it, though, it’s that the governor and […]
