Florida Appeals Court Raises Questions In Migrant Records Case

CBS Miami

June 16, 2203

TALLAHASSEE - An appeals court Tuesday appeared to question a circuit judge's ruling that said Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration violated Florida's public-records law last year by not properly providing documents about controversial flights of migrants from Texas to Massachusetts.

A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal heard arguments in the administration's appeal of an October ruling by Leon County Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh.

That ruling sided with the non-profit Florida Center for Government Accountability, which filed a lawsuit after seeking records about the state-funded flights in September of 49 migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

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