13th Circuit State Attorney Gets Tagged for Fees in Public Records Dispute

In this recent decision from the Second District, the State Attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit gets tagged for attorneys fees (including appellate fees for two appeals) based on its failure to respond to a public records request from an inmate. The opinion reveals some systemic problems in the prosecutor's office in terms of its handling of records requests, which no doubt will be addressed by Mark Ober in short order.