SEPTEMBER 13 - 26, 2021 There’s a lot that governments don’t want you to see Publisher BY GRANT MILLER It seemed innocent enough. The City of Coral Coral Gables Police officers Gables was amending its public records policy. It claimed that “The City of...
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SEPTEMBER 13 - 26, 2021 There’s a lot that governments don’t want you to see Publisher BY GRANT MILLER It seemed innocent enough. The City of Coral Coral Gables Police officers Gables was amending its public records policy. It claimed that “The City of Coral Gables strives to be honored during ceremony fully transparent and accepts the principles set A CEREMONY CONDUCTED RECENTLY AT forth in Chapter 119, THE CORAL GABLES POLICE DEPARTMENT Florida Statutes, the Public Records Law.” RECOGNIZED 12 OFFICERS FOR THEIR Striving to be transparent is good; being DEDICATION TO THE JOB THEY DO AND transparent is better. It’s also good that Coral THEIR HUMANITY IN THE TREATMENT OF Gables accepts Florida law. But, really, does the PEOPLE. IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE IT Gables have a choice? WAS DR. DENIS ROD DURING A The policy of open records in Florida is over CHALLENGING MEDICAL EMERGENCY. PICTURED ARE (l-r, front row) a century old. In 1909, the legislature passed JULIA BENAVIDES, CORAL GABLES’S C
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