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County attorney briefs TIP advisory group on Florida'sunshine law and ethics
Summary
Brevard County's county attorney delivered a concise training on Florida'sunshine and ethics rules for advisory-board members, answering practical questions about accidental meetings, public-records exposure of texts and phones, voting conflicts, and notice requirements.
Becky Beal, an attorney in the Brevard County attorney's office, told members of the TIP advisory group that Florida'law requires deliberations by advisory boards to be conducted in public and that members are public officers subject to both the Sunshine Law and the state'ethics code.
Beal summarized key rules: meetings and subcommittees that deliberate on matters that may reasonably come before a board must be properly noticed with time, place and general subject; minutes are public records and need not be verbatim; and members should avoid "daisy-chain" communications, texts or emails…
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