Public Records and Public Oversight

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It has been ten years since a gunman walked into the Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016, and murdered 49 people. Ten years since Christine Leinonen lost her son, Christopher Andrew Leinonen. Ten years. And the City of Orlando is still finding new ways to harm Christine and exploit her son's murder. Who Was Christopher Andrew Leinonen? His friends called him Drew. From birth, he was easy-going, fun, and happy. He was the kind of person who lit up a room just by walking into it —

PULSE survivor Jorshua Hernandez Carrion asks the City of Orlando 10 Unanswered Questions for the 10-year mark. Emails were sent to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's Chief of Staff Heather Fagan. The City has still not provided answers.

Rose responded from her private Gmail account, telling our group we were "dumb," calling us "a bunch of traitors," and instructing us to "kick rocks." She told Dr. Blair to "get a life" and "move on." She told PULSE survivors—people who lost friends, lovers, and family members in the deadliest mass shooting in American history—to stop "harassing" the City of Orlando.

PULSE Survivors and victims' families write a scathing open letter calling out City of Orlando officials, including City Attorney Mayanne Downs, the Mayor's Chief of Staff Heather Fagan, and GOP Megadonor Craig Mateer.

The PULSE Nightclub has now been demolished. For those of us who have been vocal about the importance of that building , this moment carries real consequences — not just emotionally, but legally and historically. For years, we have been documenting the unpermitted renovations and code violations that were still visible within the structure, work that was essential on multiple levels: to expose the City of Orlando's regulatory failures and cover-up , to put on record the PU

The City of Orlando has put the names of City Council members on display at its "memorial" construction site before demolition — but not the names of PULSE survivors. Let that sink in. They have space to honor politicians. They have space to center themselves. But somehow, they cannot find space to name the people who were shot, who survived, who lost loved ones, who live with this every single day. That is not an oversight. That is a choice. It is horrendous. It is unaccepta

Earlier this year (2025), Governor Ron DeSantis and CFO Blaise Ingoglia announced a sweeping effort to audit nearly every local government in Florida — billed as a crackdown on “waste, fraud, and abuse.” They framed it as non-partisan enforcement, with the implication that the audits would expose inefficiency or corruption. The joke was on us.

This is our second timeline for accountability, as the first has become so long the website began to drag when loading. We will continue to document updates here from November 18, 2025, to the present. November 18, 2025 — We continue to seek public records and oppose the City of Orlando’s interpretation and selective application of the law—an approach that appears designed to keep incriminating evidence from public view. Our latest records request, 25-20521, documents the ac

June 12, 2016 - The Pulse Nightclub Shooting occurred, resulting in the murder of 49 people, 53 others wounded by gunfire, and hundreds of survivors who were injured and/or traumatized. Occurring on Latin Night, the shooting disproportionately affected Black and Latinx LGTBQ+ people, with the majority of victims being of Puerto Rican descent. June 29, 2016 - Evidence of blocked exits at the Pulse Nightclub make the news, with WESH 2 erroneously reporting that a "Coke Machin

In the upcoming months, we will be working with our grassroots partners to create new engagements on social media to address issues with...

The Orlando Police Department's Investigation into the unpermitted renovations and code violations at the Pulse Nightclub is flawed.

Pulse First Responders Mark Canty and Scott Smith were interviewed for the new "documentary" series PD True on Paramount Plus. We watched...

The City of Orlando's Pulse Memorial Committee Process is as unnecessary as it is harmful.

An hour-long special on the failed onePULSE Foundation and the code violations and unpermitted renovations at Pulse Nightclub.

Dear FBI, We, the victims’ families and survivors of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, are writing to respectfully request footage that is...

Stop the branding, stop the crass fundraising schemes, and stop the Community Rainbow Run. 

On May 6, 2023, the documents that the onePULSE Foundation gave to Orange County became public. The onePULSE Foundation refused to give...

The onePULSE Foundation had many conflicts of interest, allowing founder Barbara Poma to exploit the mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub.

The second-floor offices at Pulse were unpermitted, but the City has refused to verify this and the other known violations at Pulse.