Gov. Rick Scott’s deplorable track record on following open-government mandates in state law fell to a new low with his December firing of a Cabinet-level state agency director. The governor and his staff engineered the sacking behind closed doors — absent a public discussion or a public vote — in clear violation of the state […]
Child welfare officials on defensive over child death ‘transparency’ – Tampa Bay Times
Florida’s top child welfare officials were on the defensive before a House committee on Wednesday as they defended an annual report on child deaths that had been stripped of data and embarrassing details about the state’s role in failing to protect the children whose lives were lost. Secretary of the Department of Health John Armstrong told the […]
Sobel doubts ability of admnistration to do transparent review of child deaths – Naked Politics
Frustrated that state officials have scrubbed crucial, and often embarrassing, details from a state report on children who have died from abuse, the head of the key Senate oversight committee said Thursday that it may be time to take the job away from the administration. “It seems they are less transparent that they have been […]
