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More and more, officials are simply ignoring Florida’s public records laws

Requests for public documents can go unanswered for weeks, months, even years.

Herbert Block, The Washington Post’s legendary political cartoonist, advocated tirelessly for government in the sunshine. The first page of his 1957 anthology, HERBLOCK’s Special for Today, depicted two bureaucrats discussing a stack of documents in a government office. One is reaching for a set of rubber stamps on his desk. “Well,” he says to the other, “We certainly botched […]

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