Rule Of Law – Who Knew?

The Northwest Florida Daily News actually reports on the law working for a change:

Tom McLaughlin takes some time away from the Sheriff’s Office to report that a Leon County Grand jury indicts Sansom and Richburg:

State Rep. Ray Sansom and Northwest Florida State College President Bob Richburg have been indicted for official misconduct, a third-degree felony.

Richburg has also been indicted on a charge of perjury.
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The indictments stemmed from the $6 million deal that was cut to create a multi-use educational facility at Destin Airport on property leased from the county by developer and Sansom backer Jay Odom.

The grand jury said Sansom had falsified budget documents to make an air plane hangar being built for developer Jay Odom appear as a “multi-use educational facility.”

Richburg was indicted for perjury for denying that there were discussions about the hangar.

Finally indicting Odom would have been the trifecta, but not all wishes come true.

In the F-35 cases the paper reports Judge rules Val-P violated public records law

VALPARAISO – Okaloosa County Circuit Judge Thomas Remington has ruled that Valparaiso officials have violated the state’s public records law related to their fight against the Air Force.

This was in relation to a local freedom of information request by one of the lawyers suing Valparaiso over the F-35 lawsuit against the Air Force. It is a bit hypocritical for Valparaiso suing because it doesn’t feel the Air Force has provided everything they requested, and then turning around and stalling on a request for information about the city’s actions.

Florida law is a lot clearer on what are public records, and how soon they have to be produced than Federal law.