Political and Legislative
New Lawsuit Accuses Florida Governor of Withholding Records of Migrant Flights
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’ much-publicized effort to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard has drawn its third lawsuit.
An open government group on Monday asserted in a lawsuit that the DeSantis administration is improperly withholding public records associated with the two charter flights that brought nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants to the resort island in Massachusetts.
The Florida Center for Government Accountability wants a judge to order the DeSantis administration to turn over phone and text logs for DeSantis’ chief of staff James Uthmeier as well as records exchanged with the company that set up the flights and copies of the waivers signed by the migrants who were on the flights.
