Florida Sunshine Law

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The Florida Sunshine Law is a set of open-government statutes that require transparency and public access to meetings and records of governmental bodies in the state of Florida.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf freedom of information law
open government law
state statute
appliesInJurisdiction Florida
surface form: State of Florida
appliesTo advisory boards in Florida
boards and commissions in Florida
committees created by public agencies in Florida
county governments in Florida
decision-making bodies of public entities in Florida
municipal governments in Florida
state agencies in Florida
consequenceOfViolation voiding of actions taken at illegal meetings
corePrinciple governmental meetings should be open to the public
governmental records should be accessible to the public
public oversight of government actions
transparency in government decision-making
country United States of America
surface form: United States
enforcedBy Attorney General of Florida
surface form: Florida Attorney General

Florida courts
State Attorney for Miami-Dade County
surface form: State Attorney in each Florida judicial circuit
exempts certain active criminal investigative information
certain law enforcement records
certain security and emergency response plans
some personal privacy information as defined by statute
hasComponent exemptions for specified confidential information
notice and minutes requirements
open meetings requirements
public records requirements
legalDomain administrative law
public law
penaltyType misdemeanor for certain willful violations
prohibits evasive communications to avoid public meetings requirements
secret meetings of covered public bodies
providesFor civil remedies for violations
criminal penalties for willful violations
purpose to ensure transparency in Florida government
to guarantee public access to governmental decision-making
to prevent secret government actions
relatedTo Florida Constitution open government provisions
Florida Sunshine Law self-linksurface differs
surface form: Florida Public Records Law

Freedom of Information Act
surface form: federal Freedom of Information Act
requires minutes of public meetings
open meetings of governmental bodies
public access to governmental records
reasonable notice of public meetings
that exemptions be narrowly construed
scope discussions of public business by covered officials
meetings where official acts are to be taken
records made or received in connection with official business

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Miami Beach City Commission subjectTo Florida Sunshine Law
Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners follows Florida Sunshine Law
this entity surface form: Sunshine Law of Florida for public meetings
Florida Sunshine Law relatedTo Florida Sunshine Law self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Florida Public Records Law