Florida lawmakers have a funny way of celebrating Sunshine Week: trying to carve further exemptions into the state’s public records and open meetings laws. We’re halfway through Sunshine Week, an annual celebration of open government laws. Florida’s Sunshine Law is supposed to be a model measure in keeping government transparent and holding public officials accountable. […]
Florida’s Sunshine Law: Officials, Public Need To Learn It – The Ledger
For a second time within two years Lakeland taxpayers have been forced to cough up a princely sum for lawyers embroiled in a public-records dispute involving the city’s police department. Last year, the city doled out $225,000 in a failed effort to keep confidential a damaging grand jury report on the then-scandal-ridden department that determined […]
Gov. Scott’s lawyers ask California judge to rule on docs, but it’ll be after the election – Miami Herald
Gov. Rick Scott’s lawyers have asked a judge in California to wait until after the election to decide whether Google can release details about the Gmail accounts used by the governor and two former members of his staff. Lawyers for the governor filed notice for a Nov. 7 hearing, three days after the election, in […]
