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First-term Gov. Rick Scott is campaigning to change the hearts and minds of Coffee and donuts are promised. Read . . . → Read More: Tallahassee Democrat: Gov. Scott to hold open house for reporters BY STEVE BOUSQUET TALLAHASSEE — The Legislature’s latest privatization effort is drawing attention from lobbyists and the news media, and for very different reasons. In a little-noticed action, lawmakers rewrote their rules last session and added a provision to outsource the Office of Lobbyist Registration. Read . . . → Read More: St. Petersburg Times: Press group in talks to take over state lobbyist registration BY MIKE SCHNEIDER ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The judge in the Casey Anthony case has urged the Judge Belvin Perry wrote in an order that releasing the names of jurors EDITORIAL Gov. Rick Scott, who has sent some very mixed messages about open government, took a step in the right direction Thursday by reducing the charges for processing public records requests. But Scott still has a way to go before he’s lined up properly behind Florida’s strong and proud tradition as an open-government leader. Read . . . → Read More: The News-Press: Scott makes good move on public records BY PAUL FLEMMING Gov. Rick Scott’s office has tweaked its public-records cost structure, a move that in practice should reduce the charges for documents. In March, Scott’s communications director, Brian Burgess, announced a new policy for fulfilling what he and Scott have characterized as an unprecedented volume of records requests. Cost-recovery would reflect the costs of producing them. Read . . . → Read More: Tallahassee Democrat: Scott’s office tweaks public-records cost structure EDITORIAL As the adage goes, hard cases can make bad law. They also can result in closing public records that should not be kept secret. As the anger over the outcome of the Casey Anthony case fades, so should interest by state lawmakers in filing legislation to keep the names of jurors secret. Judges already have the . . . → Read More: St. Petersburg Times: Keep openness in court BY RACHEL KAUFMAN Gannett Co. (GCI) today reported second-quarter earnings of $151 million, or $.63 per share, on revenues of $1.3 billion, and announced that it would double the dividend it pays to shareholders, to 8 cents per share. This is a 22 percent decrease in income from the same quarter in 2010; perhaps because advertising revenue was . . . → Read More: Mediabistro: Gannett Co. reports second quarter profit State juvenile justice administrators have a tape of a dying teen in custody in Palm Beach County. Two lockup workers have been fired and several others suspended. BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER Two weeks after a controversial state law took effect making it illegal for government agencies to make photos or recordings of a death public, the statute will face . . . → Read More: Miami Herald: Teen’s death in West Palm Beach lockup raises questions about new law BY KATY SORENSON I dutifully read the agenda for my first meeting of the Miami-Dade BY REBECCAH CANTLEY In response to a scam, the Leon County Sheriff’s Office this past week changed the way the public can search online for information about arrests and people who are being held in the jail. No longer can the public search the inmate database by arrest date or name alone. Now the search requires that you . . . → Read More: Tallahassee Democrat: LCSO jail database changes a step backward for public access |
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