McDOUGALL v. CULVER

No. 2D07-5490.

3 So.3d 391 (2009)

John J. McDOUGALL, as Sheriff of Lee County, Florida, Appointing Authority of the Lee County Civil Service Board, and John J. McDougall, as Sheriff of Lee County, Florida, Appointing Authority of an unnamed ad hoc disciplinary committee of The Office of the Sheriff of Lee County, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Frances C. CULVER, Richard P. Snyder, Stephen A. Humfleet, Linda Kress, Matthew R. Leclair, Scott W. Massingill, Robert Wardrop, and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

January 16, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Stephen Cohen and Shane B. Vogt of Williams, Schifino, Mangione & Steady, P.A., Tampa, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Richard G. Groff and Warren A. Pies of Dye, Deitrich, Petruff & St. Paul, P.L., Bradenton, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants.


WHATLEY, Judge.

John J. McDougall, as Sheriff of Lee County, appeals a final judgment finding that his office violated the Florida Sunshine Law, § 286.011, Fla. Stat. (1999), while conducting internal affairs (IA) investigations of deputies employed by his office. The deputies, Frances C. Culver, Richard P. Snyder, Stephen A. Humfleet, Linda Kress, Matthew R. Leclair, Scott W. Massingill, and Robert Wardrop, filed a cross-appeal arguing that the trial court erred...

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