UF closed Husband's records request at fifty-three pages the same afternoon its own legal office logged 109 more pages of "potentially responsive records" for release approval, and has never given those pages to him.
Art. I, s. 24(a) and s. 119.07(1)(a) require UF to produce the records its own search located. Marking the request closed ends nothing. Every record withheld gets its statutory exemption in writing under s. 119.07(1)(e). UF counted the pages and asked, "SHALL I PREPARE AN INVOICE?" The next step was the invoice and the 109 pages, delivered to Husband.
- May 4, 2026, 10:40 AM: UF's IT office wrote that its search tool "stalled before completing the search of Professor Bambauer's mailbox" and that 17 other messages "should have been included previously." N-096, N-097
- May 4, 2026, 11:11 AM to 3:22 PM: legal assistant Barbara L. Wood: "I am in receipt of potentially responsive records (109 rerun PAGES; EXCLUDING Attachments)," copied "to be reviewed by the General Counsel and for approval to be released." That afternoon the request was marked Completed/Closed, and UF told Husband: "This completes the public records request." It produced fifty-three pages, all correspondence between Husband and UF: not one internal UF email. N-097, N-096Read them: UF's own emails, May 4, 2026 (production p. 119) (link pending redacted copy)
- Sept. 2 to Sept. 29, 2026: UF's counsel sent the May 4 pages to the judge, "intended for an in camera review only," without copying Husband. The order denying the petition found everything public was produced "prior to the filing of this action." No production to Husband has carried the 109 pages. N-097, NEW-0906-U5, N-094Which production delivered the 109 pages to Husband, and what statutory exemption does UF claim for any page it kept?
Daniel Quiros, UF Information Technology (reported the stall and the missed messages). Barbara L. Wood, Office of the General Counsel (logged the 109 pages for release approval). John Hines, records custodian (received both emails; marked the request complete that afternoon). One request, one day's emails, one set of pages. Every duty here arises from UF's own May 4, 2026 search on this request alone; no other card is needed to establish it.
Art. I, s. 24(a), Fla. Const. makes access to public records a constitutional right, presumes records open, and puts the burden of any exemption on the custodian. Section 119.07(1)(a), Fla. Stat., requires the custodian to permit inspection of the non-exempt records its search located, and s. 119.07(1)(e) requires the statutory basis for anything withheld. A located record stays responsive after the request is marked closed.
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UF closed the request at 53 pages the same afternoon its lawyers logged 109 more pages "for review and release approval".
On May 4, 2026, UF's IT office reported that the first search had stalled and that a rerun had run to completion. Minutes later the General Counsel's office confirmed receipt of 109 rerun pages, plus seventeen messages that should have been included previously, copied them to a drive folder for review and release approval, and asked whether to prepare an invoice.
That afternoon the request was marked Completed/Closed, and UF produced fifty-three pages and called the request complete (N-096). The 109 pages and the seventeen messages appeared in no production, affidavit, or motion until September 2, 2026, when UF's counsel delivered them to the judge for in camera review, described in his own inventory, and not to the requester. Three days later a second file was built and routed the same way, to a drive folder for release approval, and it too was never released (N-099). [IGNORED]
The Constitution presumes the records open and puts the burden of justifying a withholding on the agency. A custodian must let the requester inspect non-exempt records located, and state a basis for anything held back. A located record stays responsive after the request is closed. UF's office asked how many pages, for an invoice; the answer went to a review-and-release folder, and closure followed that afternoon at fifty-three pages. UF has never disclosed that the 109 pages exist.
the rerun that finished after the stalled search returned 109 pages and 17 recovered messages that same morning; UF's lawyers put them in a folder for review and release approval and asked about an invoice, and that afternoon UF closed the request at 53 pages
- emails_1.pdf p. 119: Wood to Hines and Quillen, 5/4/26 11:11:08 AM, 109 rerun pages excluding attachments, copied to the PRR drive at W018463-032626\Fr UFIT 05-04-26, with the invoice question; the same page carries the UFIT 10:40 AM stall-and-rerun notice and the seventeen-messages line
- W018964_Granicus.pdf p. 6: status Completed/Closed 5/4 3:11:24 PM
- Production email 5/4 3:22 PM (petition App. 13-15)
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