across the street from the hospital, all they had to do was call BEFORE it was
too late.

for others, they died in the nursing home with body temps of 104

If you mean they called the gov, forget that, CALL the HOSPITAL, right across the street.

Maybe if the Governor had spent LESS time and energy on TV repeating evacuation instructions, they would have fund a way to listen to their voice mails. Now the Governor and his aides trying to cover their own asses... Imagine that!

Just like the Con, Scott was pushing the PR side of hurricane preparation - what was needed was action not a bag of mouth. They did not give a shit about these old people.

Especially where Public Records is concerned. And you can believe that every Republican in this State would follow their lead.

Is this similar to what you have experienced in the past too?

It all trickles down. Lots of examples of public employees breaching the law. I had a county employee tell me that text messages were not part of the Public records law. Another time, when I asked the municipality for emails, they not only quoted outrageous fees, but they point blank told me that employees could potentially delete records before the data department systematically backed them up. I stopped the inquiry only because it was clear that they were not going to get penalized for this admission and they would have all the time in the world to filter out the records that they didn't want me to see.

Also, I already went through it once before, paying for the city's learning curve when a sitting city attorney pretended not to understand the public records laws. He happily accepted a tiny slap on thee hand from a department within the Attorney General's Office because the good ole boy knew that pretending to be ignorant of the law would slow everything down. In the end, I didn't buy any of the bullshit since his previous gig was County Attorney for Brevard. He knew or should have known.

The City Manager was not too happy about the push to require the public records law. He even said that the city was still in its formative stage and the law shouldn't apply.

I handed a perfect case of violations of the public records law to the State Attorney's Office and they passed on it.

Florida is a good ole boy network that gets rewarded when they ignore their own laws. There is no one that is going to hold them accountable, since they're the ones running the state. You can get an attorney, but if it's a case where there are politically networked individuals involved, you'll probably find difficulties will arise because few attorneys have the will to go up against these people, or are themselves implicated in the events you're trying to expose.

I don't have an answer for you, except to say that I try to focus on positive things, but I distance myself from anything that even seems remotely wrong. Which is to say, that I don't relate to people very well.

Someone must take responsibility for this tragedy and the suffering it has caused.

They are admitting to serious negligence. How a court would rate it I have no idea, but a criminal investigation has been opened.