A Miami-Dade County commissioner let it be known in a public meeting Thursday that she’s no fan of the state law that required the meeting to be public in the first place. Sally Heyman bemoaned Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law, which among other things forces policy meetings between two or more commissioners to be advertised […]
OUR OPINION: Gov. Scott ignores right of public access – Miami Herald
Among Florida’s recent governors, none has a worse record on transparency and open government than incumbent Rick Scott. Now Mr. Scott is apparently trying to render Florida’s public records law effectively meaningless by adopting a policy that makes it next to impossible to obtain access to public communications. His latest effort to skirt the obligations […]
Court: JEA violated records law – The News Service of Florida
An appeals court Thursday said employees of JEA, the municipal utility in Jacksonville, violated the state’s public-records law by delaying the release of documents to a firm embroiled in litigation with the utility. The ruling by the 1st District Court of Appeal stemmed from a records request filed last year by Promenade D’Iberville LLC, which […]