Greg Abbott

Abbott kept dealings of Texas Enterprise Fund under wraps

FOIFT2014-09-29T15:54:53-05:00

By Wayne Slater The Dallas Morning News Originally published Sept. 28, 2014 AUSTIN — A decade ago, Attorney General Greg Abbott invoked a cloak of secrecy around the Texas Enterprise Fund. When The Dallas Morning News requested, under the Texas open-records law, a copy of the application of a company seeking taxpayer subsidies, Abbott said no. He ruled that the applications for money from the $500 million job-creation fund might contain confidential corporate information. The company was Vought Aircraft, which wanted a $35 million subsidy to expand in the Dallas area. But as it turns out, there was no application, a state audit [...]

Abbott kept dealings of Texas Enterprise Fund under wrapsFOIFT2014-09-29T15:54:53-05:00

FOI Foundation partners in ‘The Texas Debates’

FOIFT2014-09-24T19:08:20-05:00

DALLAS/FORT WORTH – KERA, the North Texas public television and radio stations, will host Attorney General Greg Abbott and state Sen. Wendy Davis in The Texas Debates: The Race for Governor. The live, one-hour debate is a co-production with NBC 5/KXAS-TV and Telemundo39/KXTX-TV,The Dallas Morning News and Texas Association of Broadcasters. Sponsored by AARP, the program will be broadcast on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, at 8:00 p.m. CT on television, radio and online. The debate will be moderated by KERA managing editor Shelley Kofler. Questions will be posed by a panel of journalists: Brian Curtis, NBC 5/KXAS-TV; Peggy Fikac, San Antonio Express-News/Houston Chronicle; Norma García, [...]

FOI Foundation partners in ‘The Texas Debates’FOIFT2014-09-24T19:08:20-05:00

New Texas AG ruling keeps governor’s old travel security records secret

FOIFT2014-08-13T14:58:35-05:00

By Jay Root The Texas Tribune Originally published Aug. 13, 2014 After critics raised a stink about the tax dollars being spent to provide security for Gov. Rick Perry while he was gearing up to run for president, lawmakers passed a bill in 2011 designed to let Texans know — eventually — what they were getting for their money. Now, thanks to a new ruling from the office of Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety will not have to provide itemized travel records for the security detail after all. The DPS is still releasing the overall spending, with figures broken down into [...]

New Texas AG ruling keeps governor’s old travel security records secretFOIFT2014-08-13T14:58:35-05:00

Abbott stands by transparency record some say is mixed

FOIFT2014-07-21T15:51:22-05:00

By Terri Langford The Texas Tribune Originally published July 17, 2014 Ask Texas Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott about his record on providing the public greater access to government records and he will tell you it is one worth bragging about. He has aggressively pursued open records training for state and elected officials, and been honored for his work keeping Texas government transparent. “There really is no attorney general who’s had a greater proven record of achieving more transparency and more openness than myself,” Abbott told The Texas Tribune in an interview last week. But open government advocates find the transparency record of [...]

Abbott stands by transparency record some say is mixedFOIFT2014-07-21T15:51:22-05:00

Editorial: Texas AG off-base in decision not to release chemical locations

FOIFT2014-07-08T13:53:05-05:00

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Originally published July 7, 2014 Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s comments about disclosure of where dangerous chemicals are stored in the state proved to be almost as explosive as a bin of ammonium nitrate. Abbott, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, has been criticized after his office ruled the Texas Department of State Health Services did not have to release the names and locations of the storage facilities, something the agency had routinely done in the past. That decision seemed particularly odd coming just a year after the horrific explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, when fire ignited a [...]

Editorial: Texas AG off-base in decision not to release chemical locationsFOIFT2014-07-08T13:53:05-05:00

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