{"id":124742,"date":"2025-08-06T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124742\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:39:09","slug":"florida-doge-team-doesnt-want-to-fill-out-forms-before-accessing-jacksonvilles-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124742\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida DOGE team doesn’t want to fill out forms before accessing Jacksonville’s data"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, is locked in a dispute with Blaise Ingoglia, the state\u2019s chief financial officer, over how the state\u2019s DOGE team will access the city\u2019s data ahead of its audit of the city\u2019s finances Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Ingoglia, a Republican who also leads the state\u2019s DOGE team<\/a>, which is tasked with rooting out inefficiencies, posted on social media a letter<\/a> that he sent to Donna Deegan, the Democratic mayor of Jacksonville, accusing the city of trying to restrict his team\u2019s access to the city\u2019s financial data by placing \u201cconditions and restrictions\u201d on the DOGE audit team.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me be clear, we will not execute documents including, but not limited to, non-disclosure agreements, technology use agreements, acceptable use policies, indemnification agreements, and cost-sharing agreements while performing audits under the authority of this office,\u201d Ingolia\u2019s letter said. \u201cThese types of documents slow and impede the important work of the auditors and are nothing but roadblocks to the transparency that Floridians deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Deegan shared a statement<\/a> Tuesday that said the city was only requiring DOGE team members to fill out a one-page technology use agreement form, and to provide information on the quantity and names of people who will need access to the city\u2019s secure financial system during the audit. She added that Jacksonville already conducts a self-imposed audit each year, and it is mandated by state law that external auditors follow \u201cappropriate security considerations\u201d to gain access to the city\u2019s data and systems<\/p>\n

Deegan also shared the brief technology form<\/a> the city requested DOGE members complete. He said that the city was notified only last week about the DOGE team\u2019s visit, and added that \u201chundreds of staff hours have been spent on short notice in the middle of our annual budget review to prepare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go to great lengths to protect the integrity and safety of our network,\u201d Deegan said in a statement on Tuesday. \u201cAs such, we require every external auditor to complete a standard one-page form to request access to our sensitive and sophisticated financial systems. We respect Florida DOGE\u2019s desire to gain access. All we ask is that they follow our well-established procedures, which are protected under the very state statute that they cited. Security should never be politicized.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Florida DOGE audits are widespread. Tallahassee\u2019s WCJB News 10<\/a> reported that at least nine governments are under slated to undergo review, including the Republican-led counties of Pinellas and Manatee. Along with pushing back on Deegan\u2019s assertion that the audits were politically motivated, Ingoglia on Tuesday also threatened to subpoena data from the governments that do not comply with his orders, WCJB reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know for a fact there is a lot of waste, fraud and abuse in the system,\u201d Ingoglia said. \u201cThis is not a negotiation with local government, so we\u2019ve had counties ask us to sign non-disclosure agreements for public information.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Keely<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Keely Quinlan
\n\t\t\tKeely Quinlan reports on privacy and digital government for StateScoop. She was an investigative news reporter with Clarksville Now in Tennessee, where she resides, and her coverage included local crimes, courts, public education and public health. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Stereogum and other outlets. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in journalism and master\u2019s in social and cultural analysis from New York University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, is locked in a dispute with Blaise Ingoglia, the state\u2019s chief financial officer,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,44221,16470,3188,723,7310,42096,76809,13781,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-124742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-blaise-ingoglia","10":"tag-doge","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-state-local-news","15":"tag-state-doge","16":"tag-tech-news","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114984226883705119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}