Most Sarasota County Commissioners are millionaires, according to a recent review of public financial disclosure information examined by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. County commissioners were among the thousands of Florida public officials to file annual financial disclosure forms to the Commission on Ethics this past summer.

The state of financial disclosure forms has been in flux since 2023 , when the Florida legislature passed a law that would have required local officials to disclose more details about their personal finances by submitting what are called Form 6s. The law triggered the resignation of over 125 local elected officials. Since then, a federal judge has blocked the order, and the law is going through the judicial process.

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