Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Public Records Fight Cost Schoold District $44,560

The Polk County School District spent about $44,560 in a fight against a Lakeland public rights advocate.

Nearly $20,000 has been paid to Bartow law firm Boswell & Dunlap for its work in the case, while the district paid $25,000 to advocate Joel Chandler for his lawyer's fees after Circuit Judge Roger Alcott ruled in Chandler's favor for the access to names, phone numbers, addresses and dependents' names of an estimated 13,000 school employees who receive health care.

Read more here.


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