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Related: About this forumGov. Rick Scott now says staff will follow public records law – Miami Herald
After a year of arguing in court that the state is not required to turn over public records generated on private accounts, Gov. Rick Scott has decided to turn a new leaf as he transitions into a second term.
Beginning Tuesday, the day the governor was sworn into office after being re-elected, his office will require former employees who use their private email accounts or private cellphones for public business to turn over the records when they leave, Scotts office announced in an email.
The policy is already embedded into law as statute 119.021(4)(a). But, until now, the governors legal counsel has argued in court that the statute doesnt apply to Scotts administration because, they said, the custodian of the records is the employee, not the state.
It was a new legal argument, unprecedented in Florida law, and exposed the governor to violating the states open records act and a pending lawsuit.
http://floridafaf.org/gov-rick-scott-now-says-staff-will-follow-public-records-law-miami-herald/
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Gov. Rick Scott now says staff will follow public records law – Miami Herald (Original Post)
Baitball Blogger
Jan 2015
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kcass1954
(1,819 posts)1. News flash asshole: you don't earn brownie points for following the law.
Millions of us do it every day, and it's not that hard.
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)3. But millions of us are not part of a privileged society.
Regardless of what we are led to believe, there are sectors in our society who do believe they are above the law.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)2. Rick Scott Medicare thief. Robbed the old to enrich
his bank account. Screw that cowardly crook.