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Florida Prisoners Have No Right to “Free” Public Records

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Costs, Disclosure of Records, Transcripts. Location: Florida.

Florida’s First District Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner is not entitled to free copies of records in the custody of the state attorney and the clerk of the Court. The Court said that prisoners are “in the same position as anyone else seeking public records who cannot ...

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