Privatizing Made Easy
January 19th, 2012 by flanewsA bill to allow lawmakers to privatize any function of state government without justifying the move emerged this week in Tallahassee.
The bill comes after last year’s plan to privatize 18 state prisons was ruled unconstitutional. To legally privatize a government function under current law, a cost-benefits analysis must be conducted. Police Benevolent Association spokesman Matt Puckett says this bill eliminates the analysis.
“There is a deliberated process in place to make sure that before we privatize we have all the facts and we are making an informed decision. This guts that. There is no reason to do it. Nothing has changed. And we are adamantly opposed to that,” said Puckett.
The bill was introduced alongside a renewed effort to privatize the prisons lawmakers were unsuccessful in outsourcing last year.
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