The new public notice law HB 7040, effective Jan. 1, 2023, allows counties or their designated entity to create and operate in place of newspaper notice a “publicly accessible website” to provide public notices and legal ads. If a county opts to set up such a site, other local government entities like municipalities and school…
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Q. I periodically receive requests to remove images from our website, sometimes due to an arrest and other times because the individual wants to scrub the internet of their likeness. What is the policy of the Florida Press Association on this, and does it really do any good if the image has been on the…
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As you know, the new public notice law HB 7040, effective Jan. 1, 2023, allows counties or their designated entity to create and operate in place of newspaper notice a “publicly accessible website” to provide public notices and legal ads. If a county opts to set up such a site, other local government entities like…
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Q. We recently asked you about the Seminole Tribe compact for sport betting this past session that has prompted inquiries from existing, out-of-state, sports betting sites about advertising on our digital site. You gave us some pointers on what ads we can and cannot accept. Since then, there has been some developments in federal court,…
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Q. If we accept political advertising from one candidate, does that obligate us to accept advertising from all candidates in that race? Or candidates in any race? I know we have to charge the same rate from candidate to candidate, but I didn’t see anything in your political advertising post that addressed when we may…
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What Type of Notices Can Be Published on the Publicly Accessible Website Option in HB 7049 (s. 50.0311, F.S.)? Questions have been raised about what type of legal ads and public notices can run on the new publicly accessible (county) website option? The short answer is that arguably the website option is only available to…
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As you know, the new law, effective Jan. 1, 2023, allows counties or their designated entity to create and operate in place of newspaper notice a “publicly accessible website” to provide public notices and legal ads. If a county opts to set up such a site, other local government entities like municipalities and school boards…
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At last week’s Media Conference’s session on public notices, we discussed how best to coordinate strategy going forward with respect to the new public notice law, HB 7049. As you know, the bill allows counties or their designated entity to create and operate in place of newspaper notice a “publicly accessible website” to provide public…
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Q. I received an email today from a reader stating that the paper has an outdated online legal notice that is being associated with his name. He asks that we have it de-indexed from Google Search. He doesn’t have a problem with it appearing on our newspaper website, he just needs it deindexed and delinked…
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Q. I’ve seen editors and journalists come down on all sides of the issue of using online sources. Personally, I urge my crew to avoid grabbing photos from online sources unless we have obtained permission. Some editors suggest Facebook is essentially open for the taking when it comes to a person’s image or photos. What…
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