State integrity news for Florida, from the Tampa Bay Tribune:

The Legislature should unleash the Commission on Ethics to help change Florida's tarnished image. And while they're at it, lawmakers also should look in the mirror.

State legislators are not required to disclose their own conflicts of interest on the bills they write and pass into law until more than two weeks after they've voted. That's too late to do much good.

Read the rest of the story at the Tampa Bay Tribune.