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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4362391, member: 3850"] Understand....but maybe not under Florida's Sunshine law....the courts have ruled on a similar issue when FSU reviewed documents on a secure read only web site to avoid the retention of a public record. [I]FSU officials told reporters that the school’s outside counsel entered a confidentiality agreement with the NCAA that prevented them releasing the documents, which the NCAA made available to FSU in a read-only format through a password-protected Web site. Twenty-six media outlets filed suit against the NCAA and FSU, arguing that FSU’s status as a state university meant the NCAA response and any other documents exchanged via the secret Web site were public records. In August, Leon County Circuit Court Judge John C. Cooper agreed. He [URL='https://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=10996']ordered[/URL] the handover of the two documents the outlets requested — the committee’s 350-page meeting transcript and the June 2 response. The NCAA argued that enforcing the state’s open records law against them would discriminate against interstate commerce or impose a burden unlike that of other states, but Judge Philip J. Padovano, writing for the court, disagreed. “This case arose in Florida, but it is likely that the NCAA would be dealing with the same issue had it arisen most anywhere in the United States,” he wrote.[/I] It could be that the university signed contracts valued in the $100s of millions and committed themselves to the ACC GOR contract for decades without having the pertinent information such as the ESPN contract or the Notre Dame football participation agreement....Academicians ? What can I say. [/QUOTE]

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