A new Sunshine Law suit in Florida...
<p>From the <a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/" target="_blank">Miami Herald blog</a>: <strong>Newspapers, advocates sue the governor and Cabinet for sunshine violation</strong> The Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press, a Tampa lawyer and a coalition of sunshine advocates filed a lawsuit late Tuesday alleging that Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet violated the state's open meeting laws when the governor unilaterally decided to "force the resignation" of former Florida Department of Law Enforcement Chief Gerald Bailey and they consented. The lawsuit, filed in the Second Judicial Circuit in Leon County, alleges that the Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam circumvented the requirements of the state's sunshine laws because they used conduits to coordinate and discuss the removal of Bailey and the selection of his replacement, Rick Swearingen, without advanced notice or in a public setting. Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/02/newspapers-advocat… </p>