Major v. Hallandale Beach Police Department

The defendant appeals from the circuit court’s order denying his petition for writ of mandamus, which sought to direct the police department to comply with his request for public records relating to his conviction of attempted robbery with weapon. We affirm the denial of the petition, but without prejudice to the defendant filing a new petition attaching a document which he filed in this appeal, but did not attach to the petition at issue.

Among the records which the defendant requested from the police department were results from DNA and fingerprint tests on the weapon.

In response to the…