State senator thwarted in Uber records request

Rideshare giant Uber has temporarily blocked a public records request from Bradenton attorney Bill Galvano regarding pick-up-and-drop-off numbers from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

Galvano is also a state senator, from Bradenton, but in an interview with the Sarasota Observer, sister paper of the Business Observer, he says this request isn't related to his official position nor recent newspaper columns he has written about trying to enact a uniform set of ridesharing rules for the entire state.

“I asked my legal assistant to request those records on behalf of a client,” Galvano says. “It has nothing to do with any of my realm of being a senator.”