The argument has been made for years that the best candidates won’t apply for high-profile education leadership jobs in Florida because of the state’s open records provisions. Now a state lawmaker has put that view into legislation, as he aims to shield applicants to top posts in the state university and college systems from the […]
Gov. Scott’s failed promise of transparency – Sun Sentinel
Gov. Rick Scott has some explainin’ to do. For more than a year, he claimed he didn’t violate Florida’s public records law by using his private Gmail account for public business as alleged in a lawsuit. It turns out he was mistaken. Scott’s lawyers last month turned over 197 pages of email conversations in an […]
FOIA reform dies while the press looked the other way – Columbia Journalism Review
More than two years of work by open government advocates collapsed on Thursday night when House Speaker John Boehner closed the final legislative session of the 113th Congress without bringing the FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 to a vote. Similar legislation passed the House with a vote of 410-0 earlier this year, and the Improvement […]