Opinion: What is ‘effective’ notice?
"No one reads public notices.”
“They’re just a subsidy for newspapers.”
“Newspapers are a dying breed.”
“It’s all about the money.”
For 25 years, with the advent of the internet and with Republicans controlling more and more legislatures nationwide, Republican lawmakers have been trying to eliminate public notice advertising in newspapers.
Their goal is becoming increasingly within reach.
One step toward that came last week when the Sarasota County Commission adopted an ordinance giving the Sarasota County administration permission to publish its public notices on the county website instead of publishing them in a newspaper and the newspaper’s website.
And last month, the Manatee County Commission did the same — in about 14 minutes.
