State Sen. President Don Gaetz has announced the appointment of Barbara A. Petersen to a legislative panel that will recommend ways to provide better public access to state financial records and contracts.
Petersen has been president of Florida’s First Amendment Foundation since 1995.
“Barbara Petersen is Florida’s respected guardian of open records, open meetings and open government,” said Gaetz, R-Niceville.
Petersen becomes the newest member of the User Experience Task Force, a group charged with developing and recommending a design for consolidating existing state-managed websites that will provide public access to state operational and fiscal information.
The four-member task force will begin work immediately and make recommendations to the Legislature prior to the 2014 Legislative Session.
Petersen’s “leadership of the First Amendment Foundation gives credibility and reliability to this important work,” Gaetz said.
“Her expertise in advising public officials, the media, courts and citizens about access to records will lead to more transparency and user-friendliness through a consolidation of many complex and duplicative websites,” he said.
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Petersen named to public access of records panel
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