By The SunSentinel’s Stephen Hobbs December 2, 2016 If Broward Sheriff’s Office records are to be believed, a mentally ill jail inmate was alive in his cell 18 hours after he died and another received dinner six hours after he hanged himself. Documents obtained by the Sun Sentinel raise questions about the accuracy of Sheriff’s […]
911: The Florida fight over which records are public
7/1/16 – Miami Herald By Glenn Garvin It’s been an article of undisputed faith among Florida cops, prosecutors and journalists for decades that phone calls to 911 are public records. So media lawyers were flabbergasted last month when Orlando police refused to turn over recordings of the 911 calls made during the murderous shootout inside […]