More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

On July 22, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia announced in Fort Lauderdale the state's plan to audit local governments for wasteful spending. Tampa’s FOX 13 highlighted Ingoglia’s assertion that it was a “new era of accountability,” yet there’s little evidence he’s working to ensure fiscal transparency and accountability by the governor’s office, where billions of dollars in government spending have evaded public scrutiny.

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared that “transparency is no longer optional,” and vowed to expose any government entity misusing taxpayer dollars. But his own administration has been repeatedly violating a state transparency law, awarding companies billions of dollars in “emergency” contracts while failing to publicly post copies of the agreements as the law requires.

The Transparency Florida Act says state agencies must publish contracts to the state’s contract tracking website within 30 days of being signed. However, a Florida Bulldog analysis of nearly a thousand emergency state contracts worth $1 million or more identified 719 eligible contracts – many inked years before – that are not publicly posted on the Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System.

The total value of the missing contracts is more than $6 billion.

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More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

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