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Sunshine Week: FOIFT’s Light of Day Project provides data reporting training

2014-03-18T15:13:43-05:00

College students in the Light of Day reporting project funded by the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas are getting data reporting training this spring through Investigative Reporters and Editors. The first session with IRE trainer Jaimi Dowdell took place Feb. 6 at Texas State University. The second session is this week with Tarleton State students. (Shown in photo, Texas State students of instructor Kym Fox after their training, each displaying one word to describe the experience.)  

Sunshine Week: FOIFT’s Light of Day Project provides data reporting training2014-03-18T15:13:43-05:00

Houston Chronicle: Secret Police Beatings and Public Records

2013-12-04T16:30:10-06:00

Editorial Houston Chronicle Originally published December 3 On a list of Texas higher education stereotypes, the entry for Rice University begins: "I live in the fourth biggest city in the country, yet I can go weeks without leaving campus." That inside-the-hedges mentality is fine for studious undergrads, but not the campus police department. With the Rice University Police Department (RUPD) refusing to open the books on a recent police beating, those green hedges are starting to look like an iron curtain ("Lack of police transparency in Rice arrest vexes lawmaker," Page A1, Tuesday). Last week, KPRC-TV news ran a story about three RUPD officers beating [...]

Houston Chronicle: Secret Police Beatings and Public Records2013-12-04T16:30:10-06:00

City of Austin launches social media archive

2013-11-15T16:49:44-06:00

The city of Austin is making thousands of social media records available to the public on its website in a free, searchable archive. City officials announced this week that because of Austin's "commitment to an open and transparent government" the social media archive is being offered to further the goals of the Texas Public Information Act. The archive was developed by the company ArchiveSocial and can be found at http://austintexas.gov/social. The company specializes in social media record keeping for government, regulated industries and businesses, according to the city announcement. City social media messages are continually being retrieved and archived. More than [...]

City of Austin launches social media archive2013-11-15T16:49:44-06:00

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