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    DeSantis lawyers argue top deputy’s phone logs not a public record

    By Lawrence Mower,

    2024-06-20
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    Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at the University of Miami Health System Don Soffer Clinical Research Center on May 17, 2022, in Miami. [ JOE RAEDLE | Getty Images North America ]

    TALLAHASSEE — Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis told a judge on Tuesday that records of phone calls about state business made on an official’s private cell phone were not public, a dramatic new interpretation of the state’s public records law and the administration’s latest attempt to shield information from the public.

    During a nearly two-hour hearing about records relating to DeSantis’ 2022 migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard, lawyers acknowledged that DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier, was using his personal phone, instead of his state-issued one, to conduct official taxpayer-funded business.

    But they argued that a log of phone calls, like the...

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