By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Another political insider – this time a major contributor to Gov. Rick Scott – has cropped up in a $44.8 million-a-year government-business deal to manage mental health services in Broward County.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org with The Center for Public Integrity
Florida kicked off the modern era of open government reforms when it became the first state to pass an open meetings law in 1967. Today, Florida’s Sunshine Law, and its even older Public Records Law, are among the strongest in the nation.
But while Florida lets plenty of sun shine in on public meetings and records, it has done a poor job of illuminating the activities of lobbyists.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Gov. Rick Scott Wednesday rejected a recommendation that he reappoint Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward’s high-profile medical examiner, to another three-year term.
The move appears to signal the end of Perper’s 17-year tenure as Broward’s Chief Medical Examiner – a post that in 2007 made him a national media celebrity after he conducted the examination and autopsy of the body of model and actress Anna Nicole Smith.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
If political contributions and Tallahassee lobbyists are any measure, Boca Raton’s The GEO Group is the odds-on favorite to win a super-sized contract put out to bid this week in Tallahassee to privatize state prisons across South Florida.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Florida’s top financial regulator will step down this summer and South Florida securities lawyers who say they’re seeing an ugly resurgence of boiler room stock fraud and bucket shop commodity swindles are calling on Gov. Rick Scott to name a replacement who will beef up state regulation.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The owner of Hallandale Beach’s Mardis Gras Gaming has paid a squad of lobbyists hundreds of thousands of dollars to sew up passage of a bill that would let it shed its moribund dog-racing business, but keep its lucrative slot machines and poker games.
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