POLITICO Florida by Matt Dixon and Alexandra Glorioso December 11, 2017 The Florida Senate is declining to name an attorney who was considered to lead an independent investigation into sexual harassment claims against GOP state Sen. Jack Latvala. In public records requested by POLITICO, Senate President Joe Negron’s office provided nearly 50 pages of documents […]
So Much For Transparency: Concerns Mount Over Legislature’s Shrouded Budget Plans
WFSU by Lynn Hatter May 4, 2017 Florida lawmakers have a budget. But that’s come at the cost of a process that has in recent years, been a lot more transparent than it is now. Lawmakers have struck deals largely in secret, seemingly backtracking on House Speaker Richard Corcoran’s promise that this would be the […]
Money on the Move
November 10, 2016 – The News Service of Florida Backroom Briefing by Jim Saunders and Jim Turner When Florida lawmakers approved changes in 2013 to the campaign-finance system, the effort was repeatedly billed as a way to increase transparency. But in Tallahassee, as shown during this year’s elections, transparency is a relative concept — especially […]