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DCFS v. FLORIDA STATEWIDE ADVOCACY COUNCIL

No. 2D03-4232.

884 So.2d 1162 (2004)

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Appellant, v. FLORIDA STATEWIDE ADVOCACY COUNCIL and Florida Local Advocacy Council, Multi-Program, Service Area 15, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

October 29, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Josefina A. Tamayo, General Counsel, and Herschel C. Minnis, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Richard A. Filson of Filson & Penge, P.A., Sarasota, for Appellees.

Bernard P. Perlmutter of University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, for Amici Curiae Children & Youth Law Clinic, Center for Ethics and Public Service, and Florida's Children First!, Inc.

DAVIS, Judge.

The Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) challenges the final order directing it to grant the Florida Statewide Advocacy Council (FSAC) and the Florida Local Advocacy Council, Multi-Program for Service Area 15 (FLAC) access to certain records as to which DCF was the custodian. We affirm.

FSAC and FLAC are legislatively-created councils, comprised of citizen volunteers, that were established to investigate and monitor state agencies...

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