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After a five-year fight, TEAM Santa Rosa, an organization working without a contract, operating outside of the sunshine and allotting members grants, is being dismantled and a new entity will be formed to take its place — evidence of how citizen activism works. BY LOUIS COOPER The group charged with designing an organization to replace TEAM . . . → Read More: Pensacola News Journal: Santa Rosa dismantles TEAM Eight months after selling its downtown Miami location, The Miami Herald finalized a deal to lease office space and build a new printing plant in Doral. By Elaine Walker The Miami Herald Media Company announced plans Thursday to move its headquarters to a Doral building that once housed the U.S. Southern Command. The company will build a new . . . → Read More: Miami Herald Media Co. moving headquarters to Doral complex The Gainesville Sun: ‘It stinks’ In an editorial just a few days ago we noted the tendency of state lawmakers to impose Government-in-the-Sunshine mandates on city and county commissions that they wouldn’t dream of following themselves. Since we made that observation, Tallahassee’s “do as we say, not as we do” contempt for the principles of open government has . . . → Read More: Editorials: Prison privatization should be public Mike Wilson has been named managing editor of the Tampa Bay Times, part of a newsroom leadership reorganization that Times editor Neil Brown said will “keep our journalism strong and our aspirations high in 2012 and beyond.” Wilson, 50, will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Times newsroom. For the past three years, he has directed the . . . → Read More: Tampa Bay Times names Mike Wilson managing editor, announces other promotions BY JEFF BURLEW Barbara Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation, is applauding senators who earlier today unanimously voted in favor of a bill granting citizens the right to speak during public meetings. “It’s a great bill — it really is,” Petersen said. “It rights a very significant wrong.” Florida is known for having a strong Sunshine Law. However, . . . → Read More: Tallahassee Democrat: First Amendment experts applaud Senate action on public-speaking bill EDITORIAL Gov. Scott has named a new director of his Office of Open Government, a department that in the early days of his administration seemed a misnomer but lately has gotten better marks from journalists and open-government advocates. Bonnie Hazelton will be responsible for providing the best public access to government records, but to deliver she must . . . → Read More: Palm Beach Post: Reopen governor’s office; let new gatekeeper have new attitude EDITORIAL Gaetz, of Niceville, near Pensacola in the Panhandle, is laying his power on the line to make an important point. That point is that emails are public records, just like paper files, and they are to be protected and stored for public inspection — even during transitions of power from one governor to the next. Gaetz’s legislation to . . . → Read More: Naples Daily News: Fighting for more open records in Florida Visit the sign-up page at www.tampabay.com/debate2012 to request press credentials for the 2012 Republican Primary debate to be held 9 p.m. Jan. 23 at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Note: The media filing center will be in the 2nd floor ballroom of the USF Marshall Student Center, with live video and audio and free Wi-Fi . . . → Read More: Credential sign up page for Republican Primary debate now available BY CARRIE WELLS Public officials might have more to worry about with Facebook than just an embarrassing picture from college resurfacing. Seemingly innocuous posts could become minefields of litigation under Florida’s tough public records laws, which require everything on an elected official’s or government’s page to be carefully catalogued. If elected officials are caught chatting about anything which . . . → Read More: Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Facebook complicated for public officials BY TIMES STAFF Bonnie Hazelton, director of the Office of the Ombudsman and Public Services, will take over as director of Gov. Rick Scott’s Office of Open Government, Scott’s office announced today. Current director, Carolyn Timmann, is leaving to run for clerk of Martin County Court. The move is one of several announced today, including replacing Karen Giorno . . . → Read More: Tampa Bay Times: Scott names new public records director |
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