The saga of finding out Florida’s new COVID cases per day continues.
After getting shuffled back and forth, I sent my request to FDH Public Records Center. And late yesterday afternoon I got a response.
It was just an automated email telling me that my request was being processed, with a tracking number; and second email told me to login to the Public Records Center to see the request progress using the login and password below.
There was no password. There was a “change password” link.
It went to a 404 – page not found. So I went to the Public Records Center web page and looked for a login button.
Nope. Nowhere to log in. I played a hunch and clicked the “view requests” link. And that finally brought up a login page. Since I didn’t have a password, I input my “login”, and clicked the “dumbass forgot password” link (happily, I’m paraphrasing).
It told me if I was in the system, it would email me a temp password.
Which it finally did some 15-20 later. So I played link tag again, logged in, set a permanent password, then had to log in again to actually review my request for progress.
It just displayed copies of the first two emails it had sent me.
It’s enough to make me wonder if the lunatic “whistleblower” who set up their ArcGIS COVID tracker, and then changed the data, also set up their Public Records Center site.
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