Lilker v. Suwannee Valley Transit Authority

Stewart Lilker filed suit to compel the Suwannee Valley Transit Authority and its records custodian (collectively “the Authority”) to provide public records he had requested a few months earlier. The Authority admitted that the records were subject to disclosure, and after an eviden-tiary hearing, the court ordered the Authority to provide them to Mr. Lilker within forty-eight hours. The court declined, however, to award Mr. Lilker his attorney’s fees and costs under section 119.12, Florida Statutes (2012), because it determined that the Authority’s failure to furnish the records before Mr.…