More than 500-pages of emails kept secret during an ongoing redistricting legal battle shed light on the behind-the-scene efforts by a handful of GOP political consultants to influence Florida’s political lines, according to documents obtained by the Scripps-Tribune Capital Bureau. They highlight, among other things, an early plan that would have drawn the then-longest serving GOP member […]
Appellate court upholds ruling that city violated Sunshine law during pension talks – The Florida Times-Union
A Tallahassee appellate court Tuesday upheld a local ruling that the city of Jacksonville violated the state’s Government in the Sunshine law during pension negotiations in 2013. In the three-judge decision, the 1st District Court of Appeal unanimously rejected arguments that Circuit Judge Waddell Wallace erred when he ruled in favor of the Sunshine lawsuit […]
EDC Drops Brevard County’s Group Health Insurance – BrevardTimes.com
Lynda Weatherman, President of the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast (EDC), announced last week that the EDC will cease participation in Brevard County’s group health insurance plan on January 1, 2015. The EDC had participated in the County’s health insurance plans since 1991. The move comes in the wake of the Florida Sunshine Law […]