Open Government Comes With Sunshine (And Shadows) US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” Fortunately for us, Florida has some of the cleanest, most effective open government laws in the country. But problems with enforcement and outright abuse of its Sunshine Laws leave citizens still somewhat in the dark. […]
Redistricting Records Likely to be Released Tuesday – The News Service of Florida
The Florida Supreme Court appears poised to release hundreds of pages of secret documents and testimony involved in a lawsuit challenging congressional districts drawn by the Legislature in 2012. In an order issued Monday, justices told lawyers representing Republican political consultant Pat Bainter and his consulting firm, Data Targeting, Inc., to explain by noon Tuesday […]
Read the 538 redistricting emails GOP firm fought to keep secret – Political Fix Florida
More than 500-pages of emails kept secret during an ongoing redistricting legal battle shed light on the behind-the-scene efforts by a handful of GOP political consultants to influence Florida’s political lines, according to documents obtained by the Scripps-Tribune Capital Bureau. They highlight, among other things, an early plan that would have drawn the then-longest serving GOP member […]
