Brechner News

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, was quoted in “Complaint Claims Overland Park’s Police Chief Filed False Report” posted on KSHB.com on March 24. The story focuses on a complaint filed by the mother of a fatally shot teen…

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, was recently elected to join the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. The Fellows comprise a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated…

For a series of investigative news stories exposing the enormity of preventable deaths in county jails across the United States attributable to suicides or medical conditions, a team of reporters from the Reuters news service is the winner of the annual Brechner Freedom of Information Award for investigative reporting. For…

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, is quoted in “COVID Demanded Transparency. Has Nevada Delivered?” published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on March 14. The article addresses how the events of the past year demonstrated the importance of open…

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, is quoted in “Football Has Long Been the Third Rail for College Leaders. It’s Even More Perilous Now” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 9. The article focuses on how…

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, is the author of “Rebuilding Trust Through Government Transparency and Accountability” published on March 4 in the American Bar Association Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 3: The Next Four Years. LoMonte’s article…

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, was a panelist on “Reporting on the Pandemic: Access to Data that Counts” for the State Bar of Georgia on Feb. 25. LoMonte joined a panel of lawyers and journalists addressing the difficulty…

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, “Legal Experts: Sarah Parcak’s Tweet About Rush Limbaugh Protected by the First Amendment” published on Alabama Media Group’s al.com on Feb. 23. The story focuses on an alleged derogatory tweet by University of…

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, will be a presenter at a virtual law school symposium, Workers’ Rights in the Wake of a Global Pandemic, presented by the Seattle Journal for Social Justice on March 5. LoMonte will present…

The Brechner Center for Freedom of Information was featured in a letter from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) to President Biden on Jan. 19. In the letter, SPJ President Matthew T. Hall asked for the U.S. government to end restrictions on federal office and agency employees that prohibit them…

Sara Ganim, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information Hearst Journalism Fellow, is the author of “Too Many Student Apartments Are Overcrowded Fire Hazards Unfit for 21st Century Life,” an opinion column published on pennlive.com on Jan. 9. Ganim, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist…

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, is the author of the essay “Release Police Disciplinary Records in a Timely Manner” published in the Rochester, New York newspaper Democrat & Chronicle on Dec. 30. LoMonte focuses on New York police…