Government agencies are blocking Floridians from knowing if they are at risk from the state’s aging dams, and are asking WUFT News to pay tall fees to find out. The University of Florida’s journalism department has a long history of working with government agencies to obtain public records for student reporting. But that hasn’t been the case in a year-long project evaluating the risk of high-hazard dams – those that could cause death and extreme flooding in the case of a failure .