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Use it to help locate important stories about freedom of information in Florida and sometimes elsewhere. Obtain the story through the archives or back issues of the news organization involved, try the headline or keywords in a search engine for another link, or use Lexis-Nexis or other databases that might be available to you or through your local library.

Week of January 25-31:

Fort Myers News-Press: A Cape Coral city councilman accused last fall of a Sunshine Law violation skipped a Friday training session on the law that was recommended by a grand jury …
Palm Beach Post: Palm Beach County State Attorney rips bar over ethics flap …
Palm Beach Daily News: Palm Beach County state attorney Krischer scolds Florida Bar president …
Vero Beach Press-Journal editorial: Lawmakers should turn a deaf ear to on any proposal to amend the state's Government-in-the-Sunshine laws to allow school districts to secretly negotiate to buy land …
Palm Beach Post: Palm Beach County state attorney accuses Attorney General Charlie Crist's office of trying to impede the Rush Limbaugh prescription fraud investigation for political reasons …
Washington Times: Motives questioned in public release of Limbaugh records …
Daytona Beach News-Journal: Leaders get primer on state's Sunshine Law …
Associated Press: Utah’s governor pulls his state out of a federal pilot program that collects personal information on citizens and shares it with Florida, five other states and the federal government in the name of homeland security …
Palm Beach Post: Two Florida legal organizations blast prosecutors in Limbaugh case…
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Palm Beach prosecutor slammed by state lawyer for releasing Limbaugh plea letters …
Palm Beach Daily News: Prosecutor in Limbaugh investigation given reprimand …
Miami Herald: Rush gets assist from Crist's office in rebuke of Palm Beach County prosecutors …
Naples Daily News: North Naples fire commissioners repeated their previous decision to appoint a fifth member to the board, but this time announced their individual selections at a special public meeting Wednesday …
Associated Press: State Attorney General’s Office questions the release of Rush Limbaugh letters by Palm Beach County prosecutors …
Associated Press: Former campaign official sues Klayman, claiming slander …
Florida Today: Gov. Bush seeks health-records database …
St. Petersburg Times: Weeki Wachee commission meetings in Hernando County may have violated the state's open meetings laws …
Miami Herald: Tight lid on detailed medical malpractice data sparks debate …
Associated Press: Department of Children and Families ends taped memos …
Miami Herald: Rush Limbaugh’s attorney slams the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office for releasing details on sensitive plea negotiations …
St. Petersburg Times: Gov. Jeb Bush and some lawmakers take aim at political donations that go into secret slush funds …
Stuart News editorial: Keep the light shining: Say “no” to school board conducting land deals in secret …
St. Petersburg Times: Defamation claim makes a point for $125 …
Stuart News: Co-chairman of a state Homeowners Association Task Force says requirements for public meetings, open records and competitive bidding need to be part of any beefed-up legislation on homeowner associations …
Palm Beach Post: Disclosure of Limbaugh plea talks draws rebuke …
St. Petersburg Times editorial: A federally funded database designed by a Florida company has the potential to invade personal privacy in the name of antiterrorism …
*Orlando Sentinel: Take book out of schools in Seminole, parents ask (free registration required) …
Palm Beach Post: E-mail scam claims to be a federal warning …
Miami Herald: The state Department of Children and Families will revise a policy on public records access as a top department administrator says she was unaware that Florida law requires officials to keep records where the public can access them …
Florida Today: School districts want land prices kept secret …
New Haven Register (Connecticut) : Privacy advocates are suspicious of crime database run by seven states, including Florida …
Tampa Bay Business Journal: Legislator seeks accountability of Pride's business practices …
Naples Daily News: The North Naples Fire District’s secret ballot vote violated the state’s Sunshine Law, expert says …
Naples Daily News: Collier County School Board member raises questions about legality of school program due to Sunshine Law issues …
Gainesville Sun: Wal-Mart vote by Gainesville City Commission becomes heated as some residents questioned whether voting on an agreement was in violation of state Sunshine Law because the revisions were not mentioned in the agenda released to the public in advance …

Week of January 19-25:

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St. Petersburg Times: After being challenged about meeting in private, a parent-based school committee to review elementary school attendance zones in Hernando County will wait and advertise the meeting so the public can attend …
Winter Haven News Chief: Crow presses Wilkinson for evidence of claims in dispute as part of tug-of-war between officials over public records requests …
Naples Daily News: Medical groups show support for records privacy…
South Florida Sun-Sentinel column: Blurring the line between public and private is business as usual …
Detroit News: ACLU says new database being developed in Florida and six other states through federal funds is a more powerful threat to privacy than its organizers acknowledge …
Winter Haven News Chief: Wilkinson pleads his case against sheriff with numbers …
Palm Beach Post: Neo-Nazi mailing aided by a public records request puts Florida Bar on the defensive …
Tallahassee Democrat column: Florida A&M Board of Trustees must be strict regarding doing business in the open under the state’s Sunshine Law …
Palm Beach Daily News: Pain, doctor groups seek to help keep Rush Limbaugh’s files private…
Leesburg Daily Commercial: Grand jury probe starts regarding the Lake County Sheriff’s Office disposal of unwanted vehicles …
Palm Beach Post: Critics say plan to regulate homeowners groups and open more of their records is lacking …
Connellsville Daily Currier, Pa.: Florida residents can see how their lives would be different if the Sunshine State had Pennsylvania-style open government laws …
Miami Herald: Federal case in South Florida galvanizes opponents of U.S. secrecy …
CNN: Terror financing case in Florida puts the Patriot Act to the test …
Naples Daily News: Ken Paulson of the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center writes that criminal libel is an old – and bad – idea …
Lakeland Ledger: The recent verdict against the Pensacola News Journal in a libel case will ice investigative reporting in Florida if allowed to stand, newspaper attorneys say …
*Orlando Sentinel: Seven and a half minutes of blank tape and speculation about what might have been erased has sparked an investigation and intrigue over an angry power struggle at Orlando's toll-road agency (free registration required) …

Week of January 12-18:

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Boynton CRA approves reprimand for director who came under fire last month for mismanagement issues and apparent violations of Florida's public records law …
Lakeland Ledger: Polk sheriff uses public records law to seek documents …
St. Petersburg Times: Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is keeping many items locked away, but Florida leaders must face greater scrutiny under the state’s open government laws…
Tampa Tribune: DCF records of abuse destroyed improperly …
Florida Times-Union: Serial killer suspect Paul Durousseau loses motion to prevent publication of case information obtained from public records …
*Orlando Sentinel column: UCF needs to go public about sports finances (free registration required) …
St. Petersburg Times: Property, tax Web sites top “hits” list in Pasco County as searches on the two sites near 20 million ...
Miami Herald: ACLU defends Limbaugh's privacy in prescription drug case …

Week of January 5-11:

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Watchdog group challenges secret docketing system in Miami federal court …
Bradenton Herald: An assistant state attorney said Bradenton Beach city commissioners need to be educated, not prosecuted, over the Sunshine Law …
Naples Daily News: A violation of the state’s Sunshine Law is among the reasons school board members fired the local school superintendent ...
*Orlando Sentinel editorial: What’s so secret? The University of Central Florida is thumbing its nose at the public by hiding the football coach’s contract (free registration required) …
Bradenton Herald: Limbaugh asks appeals court to keep medical records private…
St. Petersburg Times: Officials reject a bid by Citizens Against the Penny for Pasco to have equal access to school property. …
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Limbaugh records to be sealed longer ...
CNN.com: Algerian man protesting detention after 9/11 as Justice Department wants case kept secret ...
St. Petersburg Times editorial: A Pensacola jury's decision to award a businessman $18-million over bad publicity from a true newspaper article is a blow to journalism ...
Fort Myers News-Press: Lee school officials push for private property deals …
Palm Beach Post: The Martin County School Board’s unanimity on school business for more than a year raises concerns about government in the sunshine …
St. Petersburg Times: Journalists are worried after the facts don't save a Pensacola newspaper from losing a "false light" lawsuit …
Lakeland Ledger editorial: Howard Dean has a secret that should concern open government advocates …