{"id":14267,"date":"2024-07-21T14:42:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14267"},"modified":"2024-07-21T14:42:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:42:02","slug":"ron-desantis-wont-stop-trying-to-gut-floridas-public-records-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14267","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis Won&#8217;t Stop Trying To Gut Florida&#8217;s Public Records Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217; administration is once again trying to carve out broad new exemptions to the state&#8217;s celebrated government transparency law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, lawyers for DeSantis are arguing that call logs from a high-ranking staffer&#8217;s phone aren&#8217;t public record, even though the staffer was conducting government business, because it was a private phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"efZFZHLe0U\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/06\/21\/ron-desantis-wont-stop-trying-to-gut-floridas-public-records-law\/\">Ron DeSantis Won&#8217;t Stop Trying To Gut Florida&#8217;s Public Records Law<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Ron DeSantis Won&#039;t Stop Trying To Gut Florida&#039;s Public Records Law&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/06\/21\/ron-desantis-wont-stop-trying-to-gut-floridas-public-records-law\/embed\/#?secret=lCT4TVRq0Q#?secret=efZFZHLe0U\" data-secret=\"efZFZHLe0U\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217; administration is once again trying to carve out broad new exemptions to the state&#8217;s celebrated government transparency law.<br \/>\nThis time, lawyers for DeSantis are arguing that call logs from a high-ranking staffer&#8217;s phone aren&#8217;t public record, even though the staffer was conducting government business, because it was a private phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/06\/21\/ron-desantis-wont-stop-trying-to-gut-floridas-public-records-law\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1281,471],"class_list":["post-14267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-desantis","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14268,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267\/revisions\/14268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}