A hearing will be held on a public records lawsuit filed against UCF on Thursday regarding access to email and other records related to a research paper suggesting that gay marriage could have negative effects on children.
In April, LGBT activist John Becker filed the lawsuit against the UCF Board of Trustees and President John C. Hitt when he was not granted access to the research paper. Becker claims that his request for public records was denied by UCF on April 1, 2013.
“My interest in filing this Sunshine Law Request is to discover the truth about the peer review and publishing of the Regnerus paper, which is unknown at this point,” said Becker. “Finding the truth is additionally important because the paper was prominently cited last month by opponents of same-sex marriage in briefs and arguments before the Supreme Court.”
This public records lawsuit hearing comes just two weeks after KnightNews.com had their first hearing in their fight to remedy public record request violations. The judge in that hearing threw away UCF’s request to dismiss the case and take President Hitt’s name off of the lawsuit.
