Florida gets a bad rap. Their Sunshine Law[0] has them voluntarily offering their dirty laundry to the public to keep themselves accountable. Only an ignorant or a jealous fool would call that a bad thing. You have to truly be living in 1984 to want your government to hide more things from you.

[0]https://floridadep.gov/sites/default/files/FloridaSunshinePu...

1) Small time offenders should probably be given the same dignity and privacy as other people. There's no reason to believe allowing people to turn a police blotter into weekly entertainment is a positive thing.

2) This is about the state government doing things. Florida's different criminal disclosure laws have no relevance here. Florida is fucky because florida's state government is run by a narcissist who wishes he was a dictator.

Plenty of other states aren't far behind.