Florida's sunshine laws dim as DeSantis decides what to disclose

[TomCADem]

I guess we can see why DeSantis came second to Trump at CPAC.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/03/01/floridas-sunshine-laws-dim-as-desantis-decides-what-to-disclose/

TALLAHASSEE — For months, Thomas Hladish, a research scientist at the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, asked the Florida Department of Health to let him use information from thousands of contact tracers the state had hired to interview Floridians who tested positive for COVID-19.

He and his colleagues wanted to better understand where transmission was occurring in Florida so officials could put more effective policies in place.

But Hladish, who was on the Florida Department of Health’s payroll for part of last year building statistical forecasting models about the disease, was stonewalled. He was then told not to even acknowledge the state had a set of data that showed when and where people tested negative for COVID-19 in Florida.

“They said, if it was brought to the attention of anyone that the data set exists, then the state has to release it,’' Hladish recalled last week. “It was presented to me that I should not acknowledge they have that data.”

[soothsayer]

1. Boy I loved their sunshine laws during Casey Anthony

You could follow along in real time and see all the evidence and police reports and depositions as they came in. Read every page, sometimes many times. Was clear she’d walk.

[gratuitous]

2. DeSantis must be really confident that none of this will ever come out

Wouldn't it be nice if Florida elected some Democrats to state wide office and held these murderous fuckers accountable?