Carrying out the death penalty is often the highest-profile function of state government. Yet Florida’s lethal injection procedure is both the most open and most secret. The Department of Corrections maintains a 13-page document on its website, detailing the injection protocol down to syringe sizes and the mix of chemicals. At the same time, officials […]
Did the Florida Department of Revenue break state Sunshine Law? Executive director set to testify
A House panel last week grilled a Florida Department of Revenue official over whether or not committees housed within that department violated state Sunshine Laws. In one exchange during a Feb. 5 meeting of the usually low-key House Rulemaking Oversight and Repeal Subcommittee, state Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Shalimar, asked point-blank if there “was any vote […]
Editorial: A murky search
If anyone should understand Florida’s public records law, it’s professors and officials at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Yet law professor and associate college dean Lyrissa Lidsky wrote an email this week that, in the most charitable interpretation, made her look clueless about the law. The message was sent to faculty after […]