One week after Floridians pushed back against leaked plans for development projects in nine state parks, a man claiming to be responsible for sharing the plans has come forward.
James Gaddis, 41, was employed by Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for more than two years as a park planner and cartographer. He lost his job on Aug. 30, he said, because he leaked the development plans ahead of schedule.
“These atrocious proposals, which were not going to be released until the day before the scheduled public meetings, have been suspended for now, and we are all feeling great about that,” Gaddis wrote on a GoFundMe page he created for himself and his 11-year-old daughter while he finds a new job....
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