From TCPalm: You’ve heard of cheating in the classroom but the Contact 5 Investigators have uncovered a cheating scandal in the Martin County 911 dispatch center.
Through public records request, NewsChannel 5 obtained personnel records and internal affairs audio tapes outlining a test cheating case involving 911 dispatchers and deputies in the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
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From The Ledger: LAKELAND | Joel Chandler, a public records access advocate from Lakeland, is in hot water in a Ninth Judicial Circuit Court case. A judge has forwarded a document from the public records case to prosecutors for investigation. There’s at least a possibility Chandler could face jail time.
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From The Ledger: LAKELAND | City commissioners plan to discuss on Friday a proposed ordinance that would change the way public records are available.
The proposed change would allow the city to charge people if employees spend more than 30 minutes on a public records request.
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From News-Press.com:
It seems like a reasonable idea: Before the records in a criminal or civil case can be made public, Florida’s clerks of court must purge them of all Social Security, credit card and bank numbers.
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Read More… from Many Florida counties lacking in public records compliance
From The Daytona Beach News-Journal:
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The Associated Press and newspapers throughout the state, including The Daytona Beach News-Journal, visited every county’s clerk of court office in recent weeks to see whether each is complying with the law and how much of a delay it is causing in the release of information.
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Read More… from Sunshine Week audit shows public record delays common
From Becker’s Hospital Review:
Service Employees International Union Local 1991 has sued Miami’s Jackson Health System and CEO Carlos Migoya over public record requests about hospital business, according to a South Florida Business Journal report.
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Read More… from SEIU Sues Jackson Health, CEO Carlos Migoya For Public Records
From San Francisco Chronicle:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — When Jacksonville City Councilman Robin Lumb tried to ask questions about the recent tuberculosis outbreak among Jacksonville’s homeless, he was never able to get answers. … He wanted to know the implications of the Jacksonville outbreak, but the Duval County Health Department wouldn’t return emails, he said. He wasn’t the only one who couldn’t get an explanation.
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Read More… from Newspaper: Some records withheld in TB outbreak
From WPTV.com:
FORT PIERCE — Should Port St. Lucie taxpayers pay the estimated $3.5 million charge to produce public records requested by former members of the Police Department in a lawsuit against the city?
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From The Gainesville Sun:
A circuit court judge has ruled that the city of Gainesville did not violate the state’s public records law by requiring that a former employee pay some $40,000 in advance to process a public records request made in connection with an employment discrimination complaint against the city.
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Read More… from City prevails in former employee’s public records lawsuit, Florida
From Tampa Bay Times:
Florida’s court system is breaking into the digital age. Instead of musty paper files that sit on forgotten shelves in courthouses, county clerks across the state have entered tens of thousands of criminal, civil, traffic and other public records onto computers.
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Read More… from Florida court records are going on computers — but not online
