{"id":347386,"date":"2026-07-21T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:35:07","slug":"city-of-cape-coral-releases-financial-and-operational-records-following-florida-doge-request-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347386\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Cape Coral releases financial and operational records following Florida DOGE request | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The City of Cape Coral released financial and operational records to the Florida Department of Government Efficiency as part of a review of local government information.<\/p>\n<p>The records include information on contracts, vendors, change orders, purchase orders, personnel data, technology spending and construction permits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The City of Cape Coral said they received the records request from Florida DOGE on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Gov. Ron\u00a0DeSantis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/florida-doge-s-impact-on-lee-county\/article_fe2a5772-fe9d-5cc0-9e87-d93263f6f188.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pushed<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/florida-doge-s-impact-on-lee-county\/article_fe2a5772-fe9d-5cc0-9e87-d93263f6f188.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0forward Florida DOGE<\/a>\u00a0with the goal of reducing state spending, mirroring the federal model pushed by Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>All the documents requested by Florida\u00a0DOGE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoral.gov\/government\/doge_correspondence.php#outer-4599sub-4614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The City of Cape Coral released financial and operational records to the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115,99],"class_list":["post-347386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}