by Tampa Bay Times’ Steve Bousquet March 14, 2017 After years of secretly stashing money into budgets with little public scrutiny, state lawmakers are being forced to defend their requests for hometown projects in broad daylight. In Florida’s Capitol, that’s called reform. It’s part of House Speaker Richard Corcoran’s agenda to drag discretionary pork-barrel spending […]
Bill filed to bar access to recordings of Pulse-like attacks
Public access to video and audio recordings of someone’s death would be banned under a bill filed in the Legislature, attracting concerns from open-government and transparency advocates who say it would squelch oversight of law enforcement. Barbara Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation, which advocates for access to public records, said she thinks the bill would block […]
