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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nProperty owners within the area voted to make the area a Special Downtown Development Authority Tax District in 1978. The City Commission adopted Ordinance 2155 on November 19, 1979, designating the LDDA as the Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of Lakeland. A Downtown Development plan\u00a0was adopted by the City Commission in 1980, and in 1981 it issued a Development Order “for the Lakeland Downtown Revitalization Plan.”
LDDA is charged with recommending projects, plans, and developers to the City Commission. It is empowered to option, buy, sell or lease real estate, and arrange financing to support and stimulate private projects authorized by the development plan with the approval of the City Commission. In the course of conducting these activities, staff members of LDDA took hundreds of photographs over more than 20 years documenting buildings, events, and activities in Downtown Lakeland. The photos in this collection reflect the work of LDDA, which with the help of city government and community organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce, Historic Lakeland, and the Historic Preservation Board, has revitalized Lakeland’s downtown in the past twenty-five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The LDDA is a special taxing district. Taxpayers in the district pay up to an additional 2 mill every year in property tax that can only be spent in the district. Six of the members elected by district are property owners and the seventh is a City Commissioner appointed by the Mayor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The LDDA receives no operating funds from the City, but the City pays for public improvements and continues to maintain the Downtown area as they have historically.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Will the LDDA follow the FDBR?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n The Florida Digital Bill of Rights<\/a> (FDBR) was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on June 6, 2023, making Florida the tenth state to enact a consumer data privacy law along with California<\/a>, Virginia<\/a>, Colorado<\/a>, Connecticut<\/a>, Utah<\/a>, Iowa<\/a>, Indiana<\/a>, Tennessee<\/a>, and Montana<\/a>. The FDBR, which goes into effect on July 1, 2024, generally adheres to the “Virginia model” of consumer privacy legislation. Nevertheless, there are a number of unique provisions that will make the new Florida law an outlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDBR prohibits controllers from processing sensitive data without obtaining consumer consent. The FDBR defines “sensitive data” as personal data revealing the following information about an individual:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDBR requires controllers to publish privacy notices describing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Definition of “Consent”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDBR defines consent as a clear affirmative act signifying a consumer’s specific, informed and unambiguous agreement to process data relating to the consumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consent may be written, including by electronic means, but it cannot be obtained by a user’s acceptance of a general or broad terms of use, such as in a general privacy policy posted on a website. Collection of consent by hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing some content, or through the use of “dark patterns” is prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Definition of “Sale”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Florida law follows privacy laws in California and elsewhere by adopting a broad definition of “sale,” which includes the sharing, disclosure, or transfer of personal data for “monetary or other valuable consideration<\/em>” (emphasis added).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The definition of a “sale” under the FDBR and other state privacy laws is important because the scope of this term determines under what circumstances a consumer can opt out of the disclosure of their personal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In practical terms, the FDBR’s broader definition of “sale” may, among other things, provide consumers with the ability to opt out of third-party marketing and other disclosures of personal information that do not strictly involve monetary consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consistent with all other state privacy laws, the FDBR’s definition of a “sale” excludes any disclosure to an affiliate of the controller, the controller’s processor, for the purpose of providing a requested product or service, in a merger or acquisition of the controller’s business or assets, or of information that the consumer intentionally made public via mass media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consumer Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As with other state privacy laws, the FDBR provides consumers the right to confirm the processing of, and access to, their personal data; request that a controller correct inaccuracies in the consumer’s personal data; delete personal data about the consumer; and obtain a copy of the data in a portable and readily usable format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A controller is required to respond to a consumer request within 45 days of receipt. The controller may extend the response by 15 days, if reasonably necessary (a notably shorter extension period than those provided in other state laws). If a controller cannot take action regarding the consumer’s request, the controller must inform the consumer without undue delay and provide a justification for the inability to take action on the request. In addition, the FDBR requires controllers to establish a conspicuously available appeal process regarding a consumer’s request and provide instructions for appealing their decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Processor Contracts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDBR uses a controller-processor framework and requires that controllers and processors\u2014those that process personal data on a controller’s behalf\u2014enter into agreements that include standard terms found under other state privacy laws, including those requiring confidentiality of personal information, deletion or return of personal data upon termination of the agreement, and cooperation with reasonable assessments by the controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Data Protection Impact Assessments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to the consumer data privacy laws in Virginia, Connecticut, Colorado, Montana, and elsewhere, the FDBR requires controllers to conduct data protection assessments for each of the controller’s processing activities that presents a heightened risk of harm, prior to engaging in those processing activities, which include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Disclosing a data protection assessment upon request from the Florida Attorney General would not constitute a waiver of attorney-client privilege or work product protection with respect to the assessment and any information contained in the assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDBR requires data protection impact assessments be conducted for processing activities “created or generated” after July 1, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Lakeland Downtown Development Authority, or LDDA, was created by the “Lakeland Downtown Development Authority Act” enacted by the Florida State Legislature in 1977 and amended in 1978. 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