Floridians might soon be able to see how big of a role politics played in the redistricting process, but that won’t stop the same thing from happening the next time around. Last week, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the release of 538 pages of documents from a GOP consultant involved with the state Legislature’s drawing […]
Public Universities, the Private Corporations They Create and Sunshine Law – WGCU
Florida’s public universities have a history of creating foundations. They have names like the Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation or the Florida State University Research Foundation. But these foundations are actually private corporations. And the links between these corporations, which oversee a number of university-related functions from managing athletics departments to constructing housing, and their public universities is […]
Editorial: Court upholds open government – Tampa Bay Times
The Florida Supreme Court stood unanimously on the side of good government Thursday when it ruled that the public has a right to see documents a Republican consultant created in connection with the Legislature’s once-a-decade redistricting process. Now, barring an ill-advised rehearing request by the document owner, Floridians will be able to judge for themselves […]