Gov. Ron DeSantis Appeals Migrant Record Decision
Local News Staff 
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is appealing a circuit-court order that required it to provide records about a decision to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Leon County Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh issued a statement regarding the order:
“The EOG (Executive Office of the Governor) has presented no evidence to the court of what direct steps it took to identify or produce records responsive to the public records request dated September 20, 2022, some of which have yet to be produced to the plaintiff,” Marsh wrote in Thursday’s order. “The court finds that the EOG is not in compliance with (the public records law). EOG’s partial production and response to the record requests were unreasonable. Specifically, the EOG has not made any production of a text or phone log of James Uthmeier as requested in the records request dated September 20, 2022.”
The non-profit Florida Center for Government Accountability also has filed a separate public-records lawsuit.
