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 […]
New panel seeks representation for poor in civil court – Political Fix Florida
A blue-ribbon panel will look into how to fund civil legal help in Florida more reliably for the poor and working poor. The 27 members of the Florida Commission on Access to Civil Justice have their work cut out for them with a number of funding sources having dried up in recent years. Florida Chief […]
Breaking!!!!!!!!: Organize Now Wins Dropbox Lawsuit Over County
HEY YOU GUYS!!!!! Sometimes right beats might and the actual human beings who are challenging their local government get to see their expensive ambitions played to fruition. TODAY IS ONE OF THOSE DAYS. We wrote at length last week about the suit Organize Now (of Textgate fame) brought against Orange County over a Dropbox account and its […]