When it comes to providing access to public records, one rule should serve as a reliable guide for officials throughout Florida.Always be open and transparent. And never be too cute and clever for your own good.
Open-Public-Records.com (Staff) How can I get arrest records from 1985 in Florida? Most arrests are at the county or city level, from local law enforcement. Having a case number is helpful. You can find records of arrests using many free sources online; you will need to dig up some ...
Florida Lawmakers Go Into Overtime Without Passing a Budget. Here's a Look by the Numbers Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is used to getting his way in Tallahassee, with a tight grip on the GOP-controlled Legislature, where once-pliant lawmakers hustled his priorities and he...
Florida has some of the nation’s strongest open-records and open-meetings laws, but that did not stop lawmakers from trying to tinker with them. This year, they passed 19 new exemptions to the Sunshine Law, the second most in at least two decades. The details of how public universities ...
A judge has ordered the Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding six others in a mass shooting on campus last month to remain jailed without bond Associated PressMay 13, 2025 Microsoft to Lay off About 3% of Its Workforce ...
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale June 1, 2025 COMBINED PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENTAND NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDSJune 1, 2025Broward County, FloridaTO ALL INTERESTED AGENCIES, GROUPS, AND PERSONS: On August 15, 2023, Browar...
New York Public Records Request: A written request form inquiring about a public record may be used in finding specific files - the more descriptive, the more likely the record will be found. New York Birth Records: Certified or informational copy requests from official departments. New York...
Documents requiring copy certification may include: diplomas, driver’s licenses, leases, contracts, vehicle titles, Social Security cards, medical records and bills of sale. To perform a copy certification, the person in possession of an original document (known also as the “document custodian”)...
Those records had been public for decades. The change came in response to lobbying from casinos, which had objected to a request from an out-of-state competitor for the records by claiming they contained proprietary information. Florida has some of the nation’s strongest open-records and open...