My March 6, 2009 letter to State Attorney Glenn Hess
Excellent opinion piece by two former FL Supreme Court Justices in the Tallahassee Democrat hard copy edition yesterday, March 13, 2009, pg. 3B, entitled: Clerks of court are not part of the checks and balances. If that isn't the truth! The legislature is considering a proposal to transfer the administrative responsibility for court records to the courts and away from the locally elected county clerks. The two former judges favor such a transfer arguing that Clerk of the Court doesn't serve as any form of check and balance, but rather only an administrative function. The argument against such a transfer is that the Clerks of the Court serve as a check and balance, which is nonsense.