Tarrant water district hires expert to address open government, ethics

2013-11-20T16:29:13-06:00

By Gordon Dickson Fort Worth Star-Telegram Originally published Nov. 19, 2013 FORT WORTH — A former Texas Ethics Commission chairman has been hired to help the Tarrant Regional Water District resolve some of its problems with open-government issues. Ross Fischer, an Austin lawyer, will help the agency, which provides long-term water resources for North Texas, deal with an increasing number of open-records requests, as well as other matters related to ethics, water district general manager Jim Oliver said. “We feel it’s time to bring in an expert in open government who can guide us with these open-records requests,” Oliver told water [...]