Seminole County Posts Notice for Attorney-Client Closed Session After Feb. 24

Seminole County’s Public Notices page shows an attorney-client closed session scheduled to follow the morning session of the Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 24, 2026, while a county posting dated May 20, 2025 provides detailed language tying similar closed sessions to River Cross Land Company, LLC v. Seminole County, CASE NO. 6:18-CV-1646-ACC-LHP. The May 20, 2025 notice sets the time as "11:00AM OR THEREAFTER IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE MORNING SESSION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS."

The May 20, 2025 posting lists the meeting location as County Services Building, 1101 East 1st Street, BCC Chambers, Room 1028, Sanford, Florida 32771, but the body of that same notice states the closed session "WILL BE IN ROOM 3024, COUNTY SERVICES BUILDING." The notice says the chairman will announce the closed session at the conclusion of the board’s morning session and that the closed session is "EXPECTED TO LAST APPROXIMATLEY ONE HOUR."

Attendance at the closed session is limited in the May 20, 2025 notice to County Commissioners Jay Zembower, Bob Dallari, Lee Constantine, Amy Lockhart and Andria Herr; County Manager Darren Gray; County Attorney Kate Latorre; Assistant County Attorney Cassidy Perdue; and outside counsel Todd Norman of the Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel law firm. The notice states that "THE COUNTY ATTORNEY HAS REQEUSTED A CLOSED SESSION WITH THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS."

The May 20, 2025 text invokes Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, as the authority for an attorney-client privileged closed session. The same posting says a certified court reporter "WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE TO TRANSCRIBE THE CLOSED SESSION IN ITS ENTIRETY" and that "THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE CLOSED SESSION WILL REMAIN SEALED UNTIL THE CONCLUSION OF THE LITIGATION, AT WHICH POINT IT WILL BE MADE PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD." The stated purpose of the session is limited to "STRATEGY RELATED TO LITIGATION EXPENDITURES" in the River Cross case.

The record available to this report contains two inconsistencies. The county posting used here is dated May 20, 2025 and includes the River Cross case name, attendee roster, room numbers 1028 and 3024, and the transcription and sealing language. A separate Public Notices entry tied to the Feb. 24, 2026 BCC meeting is listed more briefly in county records as an attorney-client session immediately following the morning session, but the materials supplied do not include the full Feb. 24, 2026 notice text and do not show whether that entry repeats the River Cross details. The May 20, 2025 posting itself contains duplicated lines, a truncation marker and typographical errors such as "REQEUSTED," "IMMEDIATLEY" and "APPROXIMATLEY."

Under the terms listed in the May 20, 2025 notice, any transcript from the closed session will remain under seal until the River Cross litigation concludes. The notice names County Attorney Kate Latorre and County Manager Darren Gray among local officials identified in the posting; the public record on the county’s Public Notices page is the posted notice the county has provided as of the dates shown. Clarification about which room will host the Feb. 24, 2026 session and whether that date’s entry mirrors the May 20, 2025 River Cross notice has not been posted with full text and remains an open detail pending county confirmation.