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Florida's Government in the Sunshine Law, commonly called the Sunshine Law, passed in 1967.It requires that all meetings of any state, county, or municipal board or commission in Florida be open to the public, and declares that actions taken at closed meetings are not binding (Section 286.011, Florida Statutes).
Florida’s Government-in-the-Sunshine law establishes that all state agency board meetings, which includes those at public universities, “are dec University of Florida accused of violating ...
Osceola County has lost its appeal of a ruling that it held a meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic that violated Florida’s Sunshine Law. Now, after another county meeting for Hurricane Idalia, a ...
The report said investigators couldn’t find evidence that Islamorada Village Council members violated Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Law. ‘Total lack of transparency.’
The open government laws in Florida are focused on three areas: [1] Statutory public records ↓ (codified at Fla. Stat. secs. 119.01 to 119.15 (1995)), Statutory public meetings ↓ (the Florida Sunshine Law, codified at Fla. Stat. secs. 286.011 to 286.012 (1991)), Judicial access decisional law ↓.
The fourth investigation occurred when a friend of Levin's, the Senator who passed the tobacco legislation, was being prosecuted for violations of the Florida Sunshine Law. The key witness against the Senator (who now was a county commissioner) was another local county commissioner who claimed the now former Senator offered him a bribe to pass ...
Florida has long been known for sunshine -- not only the warm rays that brighten its beaches but also the light of public scrutiny afforded by some of the nation's strongest meetings and records laws.
The Government in the Sunshine Act (Pub. L. 94–409, 90 Stat. 1241, enacted September 13, 1976, 5 U.S.C. § 552b) is a U.S. law passed in 1976 that affects the operations of the federal government, Congress, federal commissions, and other legally constituted federal bodies.