The Ledger is reporting that the Lakeland City Commission has passed a resolution concerning their invocation policy. (UPDATE 8/3/2010: The Ledger has a more detailed article this morning.) The new policy is clearly designed to help the City get out of the recent lawsuit filed by the Atheists of Florida. You can read the draft [...]
A group called the Atheists of Florida announced that they have filed suit in U.S. District Court in Tampa against the City of Lakeland challenging the City’s current practice of having invocations before the start of its city commission meetings. The group posted a copy of the complaint on their website, but it is not signed and does [...]
Welcome to Part II! For the lazy, here’s the summary: The law is different here in Florida than in other places, the school board was on questionable legal grounds, the Lakeland City Commission is probably OK but could use some improvement, and we have definitely not seen the last legal development on this issue.
Chuck Welch over at lakelandlocal.com did great job of describing the transaction history of Lakeland City Commission candidate James Goetz’s home. I thought I would expand on his work and provide a more detailed legal analysis of the transactions. Please go read Chuck’s post first. (I hope he doesn’t mind if I call him Chuck.) [...]
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