May 2017
Finally Relief for Florida Agencies: Safe Harbor with Public Records Requests
By Leonard J. Dietzen, III
ldietzen@rumberger.com
Florida public agencies have made tremendous efforts in training their staff to comply with their responsibility under the Florida Public Records Act. Unfortunately, one technical mistake has turned this law into the Lawyer’s Relief Act. For years, Florida public agencies have paid outrageous attorneys’ fees to persons or companies who have proven even the most minor technical violation of the public records law. Florida courts have continued to interpret the law liberally to include virtually any document or computer data made or received… Read full article here
