Autopsy Photos News: [Florida] Gov. Jeb Bush has renewed his support for a law exempting autopsy photographs from Florida’s public-records law. The governor outlined his views Dec. 21 in a friend-of-the-court brief for a pending lawsuit challenging the exemption’s constitutionality. The Independent Florida Alligator, a student newspaper at the University of Florida, sued the state after legislators responded to pleas by NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt’s widow in March and rushed the exemption into law in record time. Bush thinks the law protects victims’ families’ privacy and upholds the state Legislature’s right to exempt “particular records from public access when a competing public policy outweighs the right of access,” according to the brief.(Orlando Sentinel)(12-29-2001)
