Florida
Florida Public Records Act (Sunshine Law)
Fla. Stat. ch. 119
Public records law for Florida. Covers state agencies, counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts.
The clock
No fixed deadline — “reasonable time”
Reasonable time; acknowledgment immediate; no fixed deadline but unreasonable delay violates law.
No fixed deadline. Aletheca does not run a countdown against this statute and does not record a constructive denial on elapsed time alone — a breach here has to be argued from the facts of the request, not asserted from a number.
Statutory: Reasonable time; acknowledgment immediate; no fixed deadline but unreasonable delay violates law.. Actual medians vary widely by agency and request complexity; simple requests often 7-30 days, complex 60-300+.
Reading the statute itself
The text of this one is not reproduced here. The United States Code carries no copyright, so federal FOIA is printed on this site in full; the fifty state codes are published by fifty legislatures under their own claims of compilation copyright, so they are linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee-waiver standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.
If they refuse
- Appeal deadline
- Not specified
- Appeal route
- No admin appeal; circuit court; attorney fees mandatory if denied and requester prevails.
- Litigation
- Not specified
Fees and expedition
Quirks worth knowing
Constitutional right of access; strongest in nation; fees attorney-paid if win.