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Fort Bend County withholds details of paramedic raises until after vote

2015-01-28T14:53:15-06:00

By Jayme Fraser Houston Chronicle Originally published Jan. 27, 2015 Fort Bend County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved an average 22 percent increase to the wages of paramedics and EMTs after county officials refused to provide details about the proposal in the days leading up to the vote, as required by state open government laws. On Thursday, a Chronicle reporter requested details about how much wages would be increased under the proposal, but county administrators and the staff of elected officials did not return multiple emails or calls requesting the same information even though commissioners had received two versions of the [...]

Fort Bend County withholds details of paramedic raises until after vote2015-01-28T14:53:15-06:00

Dallas Morning News: How transparent is your community?

2015-01-26T15:40:57-06:00

By Bob Mong Editor The Dallas Morning News Originally published Jan. 24, 2015 As a citizen, you have the right to inspect vast amounts of public information about how taxpayer dollars are spent. It’s your right. It’s the law. The law is quite specific about what is available and how quickly information should be delivered to citizens. Several enterprising Dallas Morning News reporters were determined to find out how well the Texas Public Information Act was being applied by government entities. In a yearlong project, the reporters sent out and tracked 565 requests to 113 area cities, towns, county governments and school districts. [...]

Dallas Morning News: How transparent is your community?2015-01-26T15:40:57-06:00

Hadassah Schloss to be open government director in Texas General Land Office

2015-01-22T23:07:23-06:00

Open records veteran Hadassah Schloss has been named the new director of open government for the Texas General Land Office. Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced Schloss' new role Thursday. Before her promotion, Schloss served as open records coordinator for the agency. She has more than two decades of experience working on state government transparency issues. "Throughout her distinguished career Hadassah Schloss has demonstrated a commitment to upholding the highest standards of transparency within the people's government," Bush said in his announcement. Among other awards for her open government efforts, Schloss received the Freedom of Information Foundation's James Madison Award in [...]

Hadassah Schloss to be open government director in Texas General Land Office2015-01-22T23:07:23-06:00

Texas Senate changes vote procedure, eliminates open government and other committees

2015-01-22T22:37:42-06:00

By Morgan Smith The Texas Tribune Originally published Jan. 21, 2015 With a new lieutenant governor installed for the first time in over a decade Wednesday — and over the cries of Democrats — the Texas Senate voted to break from an almost 70-year tradition intended to encourage compromise among its 31 members. Now the approval of only 19 senators instead of 21 will be required to bring legislation to the floor for debate. The change — passed on a vote of 20-10 — has the practical effect of allowing Republicans to consider a bill without a single vote from one of [...]

Texas Senate changes vote procedure, eliminates open government and other committees2015-01-22T22:37:42-06:00

Bill aims to make police at private universities more transparent

2015-01-20T15:23:28-06:00

By Drew Joseph San Antonio Express-News Originally published Jan. 16, 2015 A bill from a powerful state senator aims to make police departments at private universities, such as the one at the University of the Incarnate Word, subject to the same public records law that applies to other law enforcement agencies. The measure from state Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat who chairs the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, would specify that campus police departments are governmental bodies even if they are at a private institution. The Texas Public Information Act now shields private university police departments from releasing certain records that [...]

Bill aims to make police at private universities more transparent2015-01-20T15:23:28-06:00

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