The discredited database of `potential felons' comes out of taxpayer
dollars. A database of almost 48,000 "potential felons," so riddled
with errors that it had to be scrapped, cost state taxpayers nearly $2
million to compile and defend, officials said Tuesday. The state paid
at least $1.8 million to Accenture, a private technology company with
close ties to the Florida Republican Party, to help create the flawed
list. Then it spent at least $125,000 in attorney fees to a GOP-linked
law firm in a failed effort to keep the list secret, even though the
state's chief lawyer, Attorney General Charlie Crist, said it was not
worth defending. [more]
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