Florida finally has to reveal COVID data it wanted to hide. Too bad it took a lawsuit | Opinion

BY THE MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD OCTOBER 10, 2023 5:16 PM

Florida has been playing fast and loose with COVID data for years, stonewalling on public records requests and shifting the way it counts cases. Now, finally, Floridians will have a chance to see what’s really happening in our state.

A settlement in a lawsuit filed by the Florida Center for Government Accountability on behalf of former state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith in August 2021 — and later joined by the Miami Herald, other news organizations and the First Amendment Foundation — means the state will have to let the public see the records it tried so hard to keep hidden as the Delta variant tore through the state.

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