SATZ OF BROWARD CTY. v. GORE NEWSPAPERS CO.

No. 80-600.

395 So.2d 1274 (1981)

Michael J. SATZ, State Attorney of the 17th Judicial Circuit In and For BROWARD COUNTY, Florida, Appellant, v. GORE NEWSPAPERS COMPANY and Charlyne Varkonyi, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Paul H. Zacks, Asst. State Atty., Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

John W. Fleming and William D. Ricker, Jr., of Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.


MOORE, Judge.

The State Attorney appeals a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring him to allow inspection of certain of his files by a newspaper reporter. He contends that the public records law exempts these files from its disclosure requirements because they contain criminal intelligence and criminal investigative information received by a criminal justice agency prior to January 25, 1979. See, Section 119.07(3)(j), Florida Statutes (1979). We agree and reverse....

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