May 26, 2008
TALLAHASSEE — In a dismal budget year when most of the news from the Legislature was gloom and doom, First Amendment advocates emerged from the recently concluded session basking in sunshine.
Lawmakers struggling to find more than $4 billion in budget cuts may have been too distracted to pass the usual onslaught of exemptions to Florida’s landmark government-in-the-sunshine laws.
The record for new exemptions created in a single year was 15, the fewest ever was seven. This year, lawmakers created only three, and advocates don’t see them as a major problem.
“This is the best year ever,” said Barbara Petersen, president of the nonprofit, media-backed First Amendment Foundation...read more
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