WISHER v. NEWS-PRESS PUBLISHING CO.

No. 74-903.

310 So.2d 345 (1975)

Lavon WISHER, As County Administrator of Lee County, Florida, Appellant, v. NEWS-PRESS PUBLISHING CO., D/B/a the Fort Myers News Press, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Humphrey, County Atty., and Richard V.S. Roosa, Asst. County Atty., Fort Myers, for appellant.

Steven Carta, of Smith, Seals & Carta, Fort Myers, for appellee.


GRIMES, Judge.

This case involves the question of whether the personnel files of government employees are open to inspection under the law requiring disclosure of public records.

The case had its inception at a meeting of the Lee County Board of County Commissioners when one of the commissioners made a motion to consider the termination for cause of an unnamed department head. The motion failed for lack of a second, but the board directed that a warning be...

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