Missing Files At City Hall (III)

Only after we complained to the State Attorney General's office did the City of St. Augustine bestir itself to provide the Shade Meeting Transcript to the City Clerk's office on May 1. Shade Meeting Transcripts are public records. It was required to be available in in June 2003, as required by Florida's Sunshine law. No explanation. No apology. No respect for public rights to know. In St. Augustine, a day without open records is like a day without Sunshine. So it goes with the government of the Nation' Oldest (European-founded) City (which Dr. King called its "most lawless") City. Mediocrity and mendacity in management oozes on.