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Old 03-20-2021, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Dond1959 View Post
I am not your personal researcher, so do your own work. Again, you do not address the basic issue of doing government business in private. To the previous poster, it is about emails and not personal conversations. If there were emails exchanged discussing local government business and strategies on implementing policies, then it comes under the Sunshine law. Again, I am not your personal researcher, you look at the law for relevant sections.

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Nor am I your personal researcher. You can assert your position as emphatically as you would like but it doesn't make it any more correct.

*IF* the emails came *from* the public official and included another public official then the Sunshine law would certainly come into play. If they did not, if they were from a private individual, then the Sunshine law is not applicable.

Whether an unsolicited communication from a private individual to a public official becomes a public record is another matter (though still not a Sunshine law issue). I assume that determination will come into play in the response to this recent request.
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