A view is presented concerning the Florida Sunshine Law as it applies to the issue of personnel recruitment in higher education administration at state-sponsored institutions. Consideration is given to the literature and personal experience with candidates for a state university administrative position and the associated search committee members. Sunshine laws require public business to be open to the public. It is argued that although total confidentiality of the search process for college administrators is not desirable or necessary, neither is a completely open search process. Two exemptions to sunshine laws are advocated: (1) requiring the release of the names and information about only those candidates under serious consideration; and (2) permitting the search committee, if elected from an appropriate constituency, the right to deliberate in private. This position represents a compromise between extremes and protects the individual rights of both applicants and search committee members without compromising the public's essential right to know. (SW)