At the annual conference of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, two Republican lawmakers described how government officials fail to meet transparency requirements.

The Texas State Capitol photographed on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 in Austin. The Texas Public Information Act empowers residents to request records from government agencies and hold them accountable.

AUSTIN - The state's 40-year-old law designed to keep government in the open needs a few tweaks to catch up with modern technology, open government advocates told a Texas Senate committee Monday ...

In 2015, Howard and his staff fielded 5,670 requests for records from the police agency, he said. In 2016, that number rose to 7,055 requests, a 24 percent jump.

An El Paso Democrat wants to close the “dead suspect loophole” that’s helped gut Texas’ once-distinguished open records law. by Gus Bova. December 15, 2022, 2:44 PM, CST ...

A quirk of the Texas open records law, adopted almost 45 years ago, says that when officials deny the public the right to see something, ...

Because the state open records act requires government-held information to be public, and HIPAA permits disclosure “to the extent that such use or disclosure is required by law,” Abbott ruled HIPAA ...

Texas adopted its open records law in 1973, after a stock-fraud scandal dubbed Sharpstown ultimately ended the political careers of a Democratic governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker ...

Texas adopted its open records law in 1973, after a stock-fraud scandal dubbed Sharpstown ultimately ended the political careers of a Democratic governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker ...