Chandler v. City of Greenacres

The trial court dismissed appellant’s petition for writ of mandamus to compel production of public records, finding that the petition failed to show appellant’s standing to bring the action. Accepting the well-pled allegations as true, as we must, the petition showed that appellant had sent appellee an e-mail request for documents. No more is required to show standing. We therefore reverse.

As alleged in the petition for writ of mandamus, “On November 22, 2011, [appellant] made a public records request by e-mail to the City .... ” The petition quoted from this e-mail, which was attached to the…