Matos v. Office of the State Attorney for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit

We grant the petition for writ of mandamus requiring the court to set an immediate hearing pursuant to section 119.11, Florida Statutes, on the petitioner’s public records request. The statute requires the court to set an “immediate” hearing, and petitioner’s claim has been pending for eight months.

Petitioner filed a petition for writ of mandamus in the circuit court on June 13, 2011, seeking to enforce his right to request public documents pursuant to section 119.11. The court ordered the state to respond to the petition in September 2011. 1 The state did not respond, nor did the trial court…