Here’s a good example why I wish lawmakers would pause for a minute and think before they gouge out another exemption from Florida’s Sunshine Law. If any one of them had tried, as an average citizen, to attend Tuesday’s strategic planning day at the Palm Beach County Health Care District, they would have been out of luck. Goodbye, go home. […]
Florida Law: ‘Conduct Government Business in Public View’ – Tribune Pinecrest
Chapter 286 of the Florida statutes states: “All meetings of any board or commission of any state agency or authority or of any agency or authority of any county, municipal corporation or political subdivision, except as otherwise provided in the Constitution, at which official acts are to be taken are declared to be public meetings […]
Cabinet members kept in dark on public discussions by their own aides – Tampa Bay Times
For nearly two years, Gov. Rick Scott’s office has failed to produce records of extensive public discussions between his aides and those of Cabinet members. That lack of transparency, possibly in violation of state law, has gone largely unnoticed in the low-profile work of Cabinet aides — until now. It has suddenly taken on greater […]
