JONES v. MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO.

No. 81-1601.

416 So.2d 480 (1982)

Bobby JONES, Acting Director of Dade County Department of Public Safety and Dade County Police Benevolent Association, Appellants, v. The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO., a Division of Knight Ridder Newspapers, Inc., a Florida Corp. and Heath Meriwether, the Miami Daily News, Inc., and Howard Kleinberg, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, Dade County Atty., and Roy Wood, Asst. County Atty., for appellants.

Paul & Thomson and Frank G. Burt, and Richard J. Ovelmen, and Joseph P. Averill, Miami, for appellees.

Before NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ., and PEARSON, TILLMAN (Ret.), Associate Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Whether the Director's categorical denial of access to his Internal Review files was unreasonable so as to justify an award of attorney's fees under Section 119.12(1), Florida Statutes (1977) was a question of fact for the trial court. Cape Coral Medical Center, Inc. v. News-Press Publishing Co., Inc., 390 So.2d 1216, 1218 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980). The finding of unreasonableness was not contrary to the manifest weight...

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