Citizens Have To Be Brave To Be Free - Public Agencies Just Have To Be Brazen And Not Follow Their Own Laws

The law says we, the citizens, have the burden:




The Rationale: "•According to the Governor’s Commission On Open Government Reform “In practice, the burden of enforcing violations of Florida’s open meetings and public records laws generally falls to citizens who have few alternatives other than seeking an injunction or filing suit in civil court to compel compliance.”"


Who watches us, the citizens, when we follow the law?

Joel Chandler writes:

Email to Gerald Bailey, Commissioner of the FDLE Regarding Suspected Abuse of FCIC/NCIC: ......."During our conversation I explained to Mr. Taveras that the ZPD inquiries of me in response to a public records request were not isolated events. Over the past eighteen months or so FCIC/NCIC has been accessed at least forty-three times by multiple agencies in order to run queries of my name. When the date and time stamps of those queries are compared to news reports about my public records advocacy and the public records requests a disturbing nexus becomes obvious. Of course, during this period of time I have not been the subject of a traffic stop or any other actual criminal investigation."


And then, there are those who watch from afar:

Everyone Is Welcome to Visit www.FOGWatch.org: "Here are some of our governmental visitors:

United States Senate, US Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Energy, the National Security Agency (NSA), US Army Intelligence, US Naval Intelligence, Florida Department of Children and Families, City of New Port Richey, City of Zephyrhills, Broward County Public Schools, Florida Department of Health, City of Lakeland, Polk County Sheriff’s Office, and of course one of our most frequent visitors, the Zephyrhills Police Department."