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Timestamp: 2017-12-11 07:45:50
Document Index: 109707565

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1983', '§ 257', '§ 768', '§ 838', '§ 97', '§ 768', '§ 768', '§ 768']

Appendix - Division of Library and Information Services - Florida Department of State
42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides, in relevant part, that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State … subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States … to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress…."
“Any public officer or employee who breaches the public trust for private gain…shall be liable to the state for all financial benefits obtained by such actions.” Enforcement of this provision is provided by s. 112.316, F.S.
Fla. Stat. § 257.261 Library Registration and Circulation Records
3. Any entity that collects fines on behalf of a library, unless the patron is less than 16 years of age, in which case only information identifying the patron's parent or guardian may be released;
4. Municipal or county law enforcement officials, unless the patron is 16 years of age, in which case only information identifying the patron's parent or guardian may be released; or
Florida Statute § 768.28 Waiver of Sovereign Immunity in Tort Actions
(1) In accordance with s. 13, Art. X of the State Constitution, the state, for itself and for its agencies or subdivisions, hereby waives sovereign immunity for liability for torts, but only to the extent specified in this act. Actions at law against the state or any of its agencies or subdivisions to recover damages in tort for money damages against the state or its agencies or subdivisions for injury or loss of property, personal injury, or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the agency or subdivision while acting within the scope of the employee's office or employment under circumstances in which the state or such agency or subdivision, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant, in accordance with the general laws of this state, may be prosecuted subject to the limitations specified in this act. Any such action may be brought in the county where the property in litigation is located or, if the affected agency or subdivision has an office in such county for the transaction of its customary business, where the cause of action accrued…
Fla. Stat. § 838.022 Official Misconduct
(a) Falsify, or cause another person to falsify, any official record or official document…
Fla. Stat. § 97.058 Voter Registration Agencies
(1) Each voter registration agency must provide each applicant the opportunity to register to vote or to update a voter registration record, at the time the applicant applies for services or assistance from that agency, for renewal of such services or assistance, or for a change of address required with respect to the services or assistance.
(2) Each voter registration agency, other than a public library, must develop and provide each applicant with a form approved by the department containing all of the following …
(Note: a public library can lose its exemption if it steps into the shoes of a social service agency.)
Number: AGO 2006-36 Date: August 3, 2006
Subject: Sovereign Immunity, nonprofit corporation
Notes that Citrus Memorial Health Foundation, Inc., which leases and operates a hospital owned by the Citrus County Hospital Board, an independent special taxing district, is entitled to sovereign immunity under the provisions of § 768.28. Whether such contracted parties "are agents of the state turns on the degree of control retained or exercised by [a state agency].”
Number: AGO 2002-84 Date: December 17, 2002
Subject: Volunteer designated as code enforcement officer
Notes that AGO 76-188 determined that certain volunteers were agents of the state [and thus covered by § 768.28]. A critical feature of an agency relationship is the right of the principal to control the actions of the agent with regard to the details of the task to be accomplished. An agency relationship is created by consent of the parties and does not require consideration or compensation to the agent. Thus, that opinion concluded that volunteer private institutions acting on behalf of the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services and subject to its monitoring and control were agents of the State of Florida in the administration of the swine flu vaccine. Compare Op. Att’y Gen. Fla. 86-56 (1986) concluding that volunteers transporting students and equipment to school activities who were not under the direction and control of the school board or the superintendent were not governmental employees or agents for purposes of § 768.28.