In a lawsuit brought by South Seas against a Captiva community organization, South Seas claims that the Captiva Community Panel failed to provide all community planning documents relating to South Seas that it requested under the Public Records Act. While the Panel may not be covered by the Public Records Act, the Panel has provided more than 1,000 pages of documents in response to the South Seas request. Nevertheless, South Seas claims that documents it received in its public records requests from CEPD and the City of Sanibel show that the Panel did not provide all of its documents. However, South Seas will not tell the Panel’s lawyers which specific documents received from other organizations support its claim. Currently, the case is in a holding pattern, depositions have been postponed, and the Court will have to decide if, how, and when it wishes to proceed – and if South Seas must provide the Panel with the documents that support its claim and the basis for this lawsuit.
