SVB Florida

Good afternoon,
The Governor’s Office of Open Government is in receipt of your request for records as stated in your email below. If there is a fee associated with your request, you will be provided with a fee estimate for your review. Thank you for contacting the Executive Office of the Governor.
Sincerely,
Office of Open Government

Good morning Jacob,

Our office is inundated with requests and we are working to fulfill yours along with all other requests we receive.

Sincerely,
Office of Open Government

Good afternoon,

Our office is processing your request.

Sincerely,
Office of Open Government

Good afternoon,

The Governor’s Office of Open Government has initiated a search for records responsive to your request, a copy of which is below.

Our initial search has found nearly 600 items potentially responsive to your request. An item identifies an email, attachment, meeting invitation, etc., and each item could result in multiple pages. All responsive pages require review for exempt and/or confidential information.

The Executive Office of the Governor is committed to public transparency and compliance with Florida’s Sunshine laws, and we will work to process your request as quickly as possible. As you may know, complex or laborious requests that may require significant staff review or materials costs are subject to service charges.

Please let us know if you would like to limit the scope of your request. Please note, if we do not hear from you within 30 days, our office will consider your request closed. Should that occur, you would be welcome to re-submit your request at any time.

Sincerely,

Open Government

Good afternoon,
We are following up with you regarding your public records request submitted to this agency. Your request is attached.
Based on the breadth of the specific request, this office has identified over 13,000 pages that may be responsive. These records may include documents containing information that is confidential and exempt from section 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and section 24(a), article I of the Florida Constitution. For example, materials that were prepared by an agency attorney or prepared at the attorney’s direction that reflect mental impressions, conclusions, litigation strategy, or legal theories of the attorney or agency prepared in anticipation of litigation are exempt from production pursuant to section 119.071(1)(d), Florida Statutes.
Consequently, your specific requests will require an extensive use of agency personnel and time, as well as information technology resources, to retrieve and review the documents responsive to your request and ensure compliance with the exemptions under section 119.071, Florida Statutes, and applicable law. Therefore, an initial labor deposit is being assessed pursuant to section 119.07(4)(d), Florida Statutes for 50 percent of the total cost estimate, at an initial labor deposit of $1,561.58 Please note that we estimate these requests may require multiple hours or more of review at appropriate hourly rates. The actual hourly rate of the lowest hourly rate of the employee capable of performing the work needed to comply with these public records requests will be assessed against the initial labor charge.
Pursuant to Florida Public Records Act, section 119.07(4), Florida Statutes, please provide us with a check in the total amount of $1,561.58 made payable to Executive Office of the Governor and sent to my attention at 400 S Monroe Street, Suite 209, Tallahassee, FL 32399.
Upon receipt of the aforementioned check, this office will begin to review responsive records. Once the responsive records have been reviewed, this office will send you an additional invoice for the remainder of the cost required to produce the documents. Upon receipt of payment in full, we will forward to you the documents responsive to your request. Due to the scope of your public records request, we estimate that the production of these records will take an extensive amount of time to complete.
Please note that if this office does not receive a response within thirty (30) days from the date of this letter, we will close out your specific requests as non-responsive. Please do not hesitate to contact this office in the event that you would like to discuss your current request, or if you would like to narrow it in any fashion.
Sincerely,
Office of Open Government

Good morning Jacob,

The software our office uses is unable to provide any sampling of the records your request produced. In order to narrow down your request, our office recommends narrowing the date range. If you would like, our office is willing to conduct two separate searches to see which key term produced the most items. If you do not wish to narrow, this request will take a significant amount of time and staff resources to fulfill and we will continue processing your request once the check is received.

Sincerely,
Office of Open Government

We will rerun a search with the conditions you provided. You will be notified if payment is necessary.

Sincerely,
Open Government

Good afternoon,

A search of the Executive Office of the Governor’s files has produced documents responsive to your request as stated below. You may find your records on the Governor’s website at the link provided below under “08-25-2023_Silverman,_J._02_Responsive_Documents”. In addition, the Governor’s Office of Open Government will consider your initial labor deposit of $1,561.58 as the full payment for the processing of these documents and is not requiring the full payment of $3,123.15. Thank you for contacting the Executive Office of the Governor.

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Sincerely,
Office of Open Government