Sunshine Troublemaker of the Week

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The Sunshine Troublemaker of the Week (STOTW) is a citizen who has been mocked, insulted, ignored, or otherwise mistreated by public officials because they chose to exercise their right to file requests for public records.

Nominations

Do you know of someone that deserves an STOTW award? Let us know who and why here with a link to an article or blog post about their open records efforts.

• Nomination for Councilman Tony Phillips who went "off on his own, ignoring the advice of the city solicitor". 11/2/08
• Nomination for Joel Chandler, "He's received dozens of threatening e-mails telling him to "watch out" and to "beware" because he is under investigation." 11/1/08 Chosen!
• Nomination for Vito Bochicchio, 10/31/08
• Nomination for James Vittorioso, who claims "Freedom of speech has been abridged and I've been gagged". 10/20/08
• Nomination for Vicki Simons, 10/20/08
• Nomination for Curtis Hier on 10/15/08. Chosen!
• Nomination for all the attendees of this school board meeting. 10/10/08
• Nomination for Riccardo A. Mora 10/7/08 He has been accused of "mis-using FOIA as a vehicle to address personal issues rather than public interest".
  • Too much of a good thing… is a good thing.
• Nomination for Brian Bardwell 10/2/08 "A man specializing in public records law is taking the county by storm and suing local agencies at will."
• Nomination for Bill Hugenberg 10/1/08 "Love him or hate him, Hugenberg says he is here to stay." Chosen!
• Nomination for Wayne Tate, Kim Lefner and Jim Reardon, 9/22/08
• Nomination for Bill Philips, 9/10/08 Chosen!
• Nomination for Dan Kramer, 9/9/08 Chosen!
• Nomination for Mr. Kogutkiewicz, whose "behavior is appalling". 9/2/08 Chosen! 9/5/08
• Nomination for Diane Oberquell, who is called "spiteful" and "vindictive". 9/01/08
• Nomination for Robert Pickell and Township trustee Hicks 8/25/08
• Nomination for Angelo Panos 8/25/08
• Nomination for Tom Miller
  • Why do you want public records? Because they are public.
• Nomination for Mickey Gendler. 8/18/08
• Nomination for Martin O’Shea. 8/15/08
  • Open records advocate wants more on police

Past Winners of the Award

You can see a list of all the recipients of the STOTW at WikiFOIA.

Some of the more recent winners are also listed here on Sunshine Review:

• Kathy Barnes