October 17, 2016 – Columbia Journalism Review by Jonathan Peters Grant Stern is a mortgage broker, radio broadcaster and the executive director of PINAC News, a national police accountability site—and he’s suing the city of Miami Beach and its mayor under Florida’s sunshine law to obtain some of the mayor’s tweets and his Facebook block […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine Sued for Blocking Critics on Social Media
October 10, 2016 – Miami New Times by Brittany Shammas When Grant Stern sent a critical tweet at Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine over the summer, the politician quickly blocked the local activist. So Stern took his comments to the mayor’s official Facebook page and was swiftly blocked there too. Soon, he says, he heard […]
After 3-week delay telling public about contaminated sinkhole, Gov. Rick Scott wants faster notice
September 26, 2016 – Tampa Bay Times by Craig Pittman For three weeks, Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials kept mum about a phosphate mine’s 300-foot-deep sinkhole that dumped 215 million gallons of contaminated water into the state’s aquifer. When they finally told the public earlier this month, officials said they went “above and beyond” […]
