Public Records and Public Oversight

THE NETWORK — How Decades of Overlapping Power, Politics, and Private Business Shield Orlando’s Leaders From Accountability

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.

Nov 21, 2025