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Florida lawmakers will again consider a proposal to let government agencies publish legal notices on a publicly accessible website instead of newspapers. Bill would scrap 2021 deal as public ...
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 TaxWatch supports the use of public notices in local newspapers by government entities to notify all of their citizens of meetings and votes.
Florida Freedom Newspapers v. McCrary. [4] The exact number of statutory exemptions to the open records law is hard to assess, but estimates exceed 200. [5] In response to criticisms that Florida's public records law had been undermined by the many exemptions, the Florida Legislature enacted the Open Government Sunset Review Act of 1995. Fla.
Local election officials in Florida and Michigan have reported spending 25-70% of staff time in recent years on processing public records requests. In 2022, officials in Maricopa County, Arizona reported one request that required nearly half the election office’s staff to spend four days sorting and scanning 20,000 documents.
Rashid Bryant, a 22-month-old, died in 2020 from ‘acute and chronic’ abuse. The Florida Department of Children and Families took a year to release records related to his death.
Public notices are sometimes required to seek a new broadcast license from a national broadcasting authority, or a change to modification to an existing license.. U.S. broadcast stations are required to give public notice on the air that they are seeking a license renewal from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or to notify viewers of the station's purchase by another party.
Public records laws are commonly interpreted at both the federal and state levels, including in Florida, to cover records created on private devices and accounts if they concern government business.