Case Name: Bobby JONES, Acting Director of Dade County Department of Public Safety and Dade County Police Benevolent Association, Appellants, v. The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO., a division of Knight Bidder Newspapers, Inc., a Florida corp. and Heath Meri-wether, the Miami Daily News, Inc., and Howard Kleinberg, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-06-15
Citations: 416 So. 2d 480
Docket Number: No. 81-1601
Parties: Bobby JONES, Acting Director of Dade County Department of Public Safety and Dade County Police Benevolent Association, Appellants, v. The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO., a division of Knight Bidder Newspapers, Inc., a Florida corp. and Heath Meri-wether, the Miami Daily News, Inc., and Howard Kleinberg, Appellees.
Judges: Before NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ., and PEARSON, TILLMAN (Ret.), Associate Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 416
Pages: 480–481

Head Matter:
Bobby JONES, Acting Director of Dade County Department of Public Safety and Dade County Police Benevolent Association, Appellants, v. The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO., a division of Knight Bidder Newspapers, Inc., a Florida corp. and Heath Meri-wether, the Miami Daily News, Inc., and Howard Kleinberg, Appellees.
No. 81-1601.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
June 15, 1982.
Rehearing Denied July 30, 1982.
Robert A. Ginsburg, Dade County Atty., and Roy Wood, Asst. County Atty., for appellants.
Paul & Thomson and Frank G. Burt, and Richard J. Ovelmen, and Joseph P. Averill, Miami, for appellees.
Before NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ., and PEARSON, TILLMAN (Ret.), Associate Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Whether the Director's categorical denial of access to his Internal Review files was unreasonable so as to justify an award of attorney's fees under Section 119.12(1), Florida Statutes (1977) was a question of fact for the trial court. Cape Coral Medical Center, Inc. v. News-Press Publishing Co., Inc., 390 So.2d 1216, 1218 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980). The finding of unreasonableness was not contrary to the manifest weight or legal effect of the evidence, Whitman v. Pet Incorporated, 335 So.2d 577 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976), cert. denied, 348 So.2d 951 (Fla.1977), and must be affirmed.
Affirmed.