KLTV 7 has obtained dramatic dash-cam video of Smith County authorities chasing a man in a stolen Tyler police car. After making numerous requests though the Freedom of Information Act, we were able to obtain the thirty-minute video of that May pursuit. The chase started on Highway 155 in Noonday after 24-year-old Isaac Garcia attempted to rob two [...]
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From a great NYT profile on Austin-based anarchist (can an anarchist really have a base?) Scott Crow… Blogged here by Reason: Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a recycling center, is one of several Austin activists who asked the F.B.I. for their files, citing the Freedom of Information Act. The 440 heavily-redacted [...]
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From Texas, quite possibly the worst FOI exemption of the year! The Texas Senate approved legislation Tuesday banning the release of police officers’ photos in most cases, a bill open government advocates opposed. House Bill 2006, by Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, next heads to Gov. Rick Perry. It specifies that an officer’s photo can be released [...]
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I am completely digging transparency as a “compelling government interest”! A federal judge upheld the constitutionality of the Texas Open Meetings Act on Friday in a long-running case originally filed by members of the Alpine City Council. Council members from 11 cities later joined the case, including Mel LeBlanc of Arlington. U.S. District Judge Robert [...]
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The Austin American Statesman had an interesting piece on e-mail access: Worried that Austin City Council members may not have turned over all of their emails, officials are bringing in city technology experts as they make a new attempt at complying with the state’s open records law. Information technology workers are compiling the records — [...]
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Image via Wikipedia This is an incredible story… A Nueces County grand jury on Friday indicted the executive director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards on two felony counts related to the release of information about an inmate suicide. Adan Munoz, 62, was indicted on two counts of misuse of official information, according to [...]
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