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By Rachel Kaylor, on May 1st, 2012%
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has talked to North Miami city manager Stephen Johnson about researching tag numbers for the mayor and the mayor’s nephew while he was the police chief.
BY NADEGE GREEN
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While he was the police chief last year, North Miami’s city manager Stephen Johnson researched license plate information for Mayor Andre Pierre . . . → Read More: Police: North Miami manager ran illegal database searches for mayor
By Rachel Kaylor, on April 25th, 2012%
By DARA KAM
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Posted: 7:47 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Gov. Rick Scott signed into law four bills today, including a measure that would change who gets benefits after a divorced spouse dies.
Under that bill (HB 401), non-trust assets such as insurance policies or pension benefits, would no longer go to a former spouse, even if their divorcing partner left . . . → Read More: Gov. Scott signs 4 new bills into law
By Rachel Kaylor, on April 1st, 2012%
Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen torched Florida lawmakers for passing a drug-testing bill for state workers that excluded one class of government employees: elected officials who passed the law.
Hiaasen took particular issue with the proposal’s House sponsor Rep. Jimmie Smith, a Republican from Lecanto, and his explanation for a failed attempt to require drug tests for Gov. Rick Scott . . . → Read More: Florida Rep. Jimmie Smith says lawmakers protected by First Amendment against drug testing
By Rachel Kaylor, on March 23rd, 2012%
March 18, 2012 6:03 PM
TOM McLAUGHLIN / Daily News
Florida’s Sunshine Law is among the nation’s strongest pieces of open government legislation, a study released Monday said.
But the state’s regulation of lobbyists is poor, its Ethics Commission weak, and its number of Sunshine Law exemptions is growing, the report says. Also, the cost of obtaining public records . . . → Read More: Despite Sunshine Law, Florida weak on regulation, report says
By Rachel Kaylor, on March 19th, 2012%
Erick Gill
Posted March 13, 2012 at 2:47 p.m., updated March 13, 2012 at 2:47 p.m.
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FORT PIERCE — The St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners was one of seven county governments in Florida to be recognized . . . → Read More: St. Lucie County’s website earns A+ rating for transparency
By Rachel Kaylor, on March 10th, 2012%
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WIRE REPORT
Thursday, March 8, 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s next governor and other statewide-elected officials will have to preserve and make public any documents and e-mails they send between their election and the time they are officially sworn into office.
The Florida Legislature has unanimously passed a bill that was sparked by the embarrassing deletion of e-mails . . . → Read More: Fla. lawmakers pass public-records bill
By Rachel Kaylor, on March 9th, 2012%
As Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, it is my duty to be a watchdog for how our government spends
Floridians’ hard-earned tax dollars. There are few things more important than holding our government
accountable. Accountability requires transparency, a principle of which Florida has consistently been on
the cutting edge. With groundbreaking legislation in 1909 and again in 1967, Florida’s government . . . → Read More: Sunshine Week Editorial
By Rachel Kaylor, on February 28th, 2012%
BY RAY WEISS, STAFF WRITER
February 24, 2012 12:05 AM
SOUTH DAYTONA — Rather than test the Sunshine Law, Vice Mayor Nancy Long Thursday decided to release the names of the residents she sent a private “Happy Holidays” email to in December, which included her views on the potential purchase of Florida Power & Light’s electrical distribution system.
Take . . . → Read More: South Daytona vice mayor opens email list to avoid dispute
By Rachel Kaylor, on February 28th, 2012%
By David Damron, Orlando Sentinel
3:42 p.m. EST, February 22, 2012
Activists are upset that the grassy courtyard outside the main Orange County Administration building might not be completely open to the public.
When Occupy Orlando members met outside the downtown building Sunday, security guards ordered them off the plaza to sidewalks nearby. Former Democratic Party Chairman Doug Head . . . → Read More: Orange County public plaza access under dispute
By Rachel Kaylor, on February 24th, 2012%
BY PAT RICE, NEWS-JOURNAL EDITOR
February 19, 2012 12:05 AM
It was near dusk on Nov. 10 when a car struck 76-year-old Palm Coast resident Francoise Pecqueur as she walked with her poodle, Molly, along Columbia Lane.
Pecqueur died two days later.
The driver of the car that struck Pecqueur was Jamesine Fischer, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. She . . . → Read More: Public has a right to know what the sheriff knew, and when
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