Look what Cerabino says about this and don't for a minute think he is not talking about our President, the CV one.
Cerabino: Celebrate Sunshine Week with yet another example of lawmakers trying to hide public records
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By Frank Cerabino - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Happy Sunshine Week.
This is the week every year when we take stock in how wonderful open-records laws are in America, how, we the people are empowered by our broad access to the workings of government. It’s supposed to be a feel-good time for us citizens.
Sunshine Week was started 12 years ago by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors in reaction to the habit of our state legislators to chip away at open-records laws by crafting exemptions for disclosure. Florida’s Sunshine Week soon became a national week of rallying for the idea of open government.
Despite all this lip service to government transparency, Florida’s legislators have managed to carve out about 1,000 exceptions to open-record laws, and they've still got plenty on their to-do list.
So guess how we’re celebrating Sunshine Week this year in Florida?By passing an amendment in a pending piece of legislation that would allow all the citizens who successfully use the “stand your ground” defense in criminal cases to have their court records expunged from the public record.
Yes, there’s no better way to mark Sunshine Week than by coming up with a new way to hide public records.
Including the Century Village "I wonder law"
To read the entire story click here
This is the week every year when we take stock in how wonderful open-records laws are in America, how, we the people are empowered by our broad access to the workings of government. It’s supposed to be a feel-good time for us citizens.
Sunshine Week was started 12 years ago by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors in reaction to the habit of our state legislators to chip away at open-records laws by crafting exemptions for disclosure. Florida’s Sunshine Week soon became a national week of rallying for the idea of open government.
Despite all this lip service to government transparency, Florida’s legislators have managed to carve out about 1,000 exceptions to open-record laws, and they've still got plenty on their to-do list.
So guess how we’re celebrating Sunshine Week this year in Florida?By passing an amendment in a pending piece of legislation that would allow all the citizens who successfully use the “stand your ground” defense in criminal cases to have their court records expunged from the public record.
Yes, there’s no better way to mark Sunshine Week than by coming up with a new way to hide public records.
Including the Century Village "I wonder law"
To read the entire story click here
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