The Trouble Of Exposing The System

For some reason, I decided to follow the links connected to the below cited blog. After I read the opening statement, I do what I usually do with blogs of interest to me, and that is to go back and read the very first post.

It is about Joel Chandler and what happened after he made a Public Records Request. Apparently, he was following the law, and expected the School Board of Polk County to do the same.

Here is the link, and I selected a few comments that some may find interesting:


I am...


How it started:
In the beginning...

"....The meeting was conducted with all four of us present. The purpose of the meeting was to address the violations of Florida Public Records laws in my PRR from a couple of weeks earlier. I was polite but direct. I presented to Dr. McKinzie what I perceived to be a simple choice: either her staff acted out of ignorance or there was a deliberate policy of violating Florida law. She rejected both suggestions and rather emphatically stated that my experience had been an aberration and that it was non-normative. She assured me that it would not happen again."""""

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Almost a year later, to test the above assertion that the above event was what might be commonly called "an isolated incident", Mr. Chandler writes on his second post the next events. Which lead us to his third post:


The lawsuit...:

"Obviously, Mr. Conner acknowledges on the record that the PCSB knew that there was no basis in law for denying my request. Further, he admitted, on the record, that the only reason the PCSB did not produce the records was that they did not want me to have them.


I believe this is the “smoking gun” regarding the criminality of the actions of the PCSB and Gail McKinzie. They knowingly refused to comply with a legal request for non-exempt public records. They knowingly frustrated my efforts to see these records even though they knew I was entitled to them. Their actions were conscious and deliberate. It seems clear that with the benefit of counsel and months of planning they orchestrated a series of hurtles and roadblocks to my obtaining these non-exempt records."

Interested persons should read this blog and follow the links found in different posts.