Housing Authority of Daytona Beach v. Gomillion

The issue posed by this appeal is whether the tenant records of a public housing authority are exempt (by reason of the Federal Privacy Act) from disclosure otherwise required by the Florida Public Records Law. We agree with the determination of the trial judge that they are not and adopt the pertinent portions of his well-reasoned final judgment as the opinion of this court:

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The Housing Authority declined to provide the Tenant Records because it asserted that the requested information was exempt from disclosure pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Privacy Act as set forth in…