Shane Desguin and Patricia Carpenter filed formal complaints regarding Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ attempts to withhold travel records from public disclosure.
As state employees, they were caught in the middle of a fight between Sunshine laws and DeSantis’ humiliating failed campaign for President.
As public servants, they had to provide public records to the media as required under Florida law. But DeSantis sought to keep those records - and all the details within – secret from the public.
So the two employees did what most people would do in any other (normal) state: Filed a complaint.
Then the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) investigation began.
In almost an exact reproduction of what happened to me after I told my superiors I intended to file a complaint regarding orders to post misleading data to the COVID-19 dashboard, the DeSantis smear machine has sought out to destroy two people who stood up to him and for doing what was not only right, but required by law.
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