AG Ken Paxton sides with UT regent Wallace Hall on access to records
FOIFT2015-05-12T21:57:04-05:00By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz Austin American-Statesman Originally published May 12, 2015 Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion Tuesday siding with a University of Texas System regent seeking access to records from an investigation into admissions at the Austin campus. The UT System cannot bar a regent’s access to records unless a state or federal law requires otherwise, Paxton said. Even the federal student privacy law does not allow a university to withhold student records deemed necessary for evaluating a state-supported education program, he said. Regent Wallace L. Hall Jr. sought the opinion after the system’s chancellor, Bill McRaven, refused to [...]