The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . the closed-door mediation sessions constituted collective bargaining negotiations that, under section 447.605 . . . Section 447.605(2), Florida Statutes (2013), provides: The collective bargaining negotiations between . . . The circuit court focused on the fact that section 447.605(2) requires collective bargaining to be conducted . . .
. . . reasonable written request, to provide public information, excluding work products as defined in s. 447.605 . . . Certain information relevant to the collective bargaining process, such as work products under Section 447.605 . . . Section 447.605(3) of that statute provides: “All work products developed by the public employer in preparation . . . , and during negotiations, shall be confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1).” § 447.605 . . .
. . . The trial judge disagreed with that contention and held that section 447.605(2), Florida Statutes (1985 . . . We focus our attention, as did the trial judge, on the following pertinent part of PERA, section 447.605 . . . employee collective bargaining negotiations between the contending parties be held in the sunshine. § 447.605 . . . The first it has exempted from the Sunshine Law F.S. 447.605(1). . . . The second it has specifically required be under the Sunshine Law F.S. 447.605(2). . . .
. . . officer had opined that the Union had a right under sections 286.011, (Florida’s Sunshine Law) and 447.605 . . .
. . . Rather, School Board submits that the work sheets are expressly exempted by general law, viz, Section 447.605 . . . [renumbered as Section 447.605(3)], since the statute exempts only materials developed by the public . . . employer in preparation for negotiations, and during negotiations,’ they are not exempt under Section 447.605 . . . other purposes do not, as a result of being used in negotiations, come within the exemption of Section 447.605 . . . negotiations with ABCE did not render the documents exempt from the Public Records Act under Section 447.605 . . .
. . . It is significant to note that Section 447.605(3), Florida Statutes (1974), provides that all work products . . .