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Bryan councilman files complaint with AG over nearly $1,000 open records charge

2016-04-18T13:27:12-05:00

By CAITLIN CLARK The Eagle Originally published April 17, 2016 In his ongoing effort to learn how much the Traditions Club development has cost the city, Bryan city councilman Mike Southerland filed an open records request earlier this month asking for a spreadsheet of expenditures and revenues from multiple fund accounts related to the project. For staff to fill such a request, the city said, it would cost him $998. City officials estimate at least 40 hours of labor at $15 an hour, $228 in programming minutes, $165 in overhead charges and $5 for paper will be needed to complete the [...]

Bryan councilman files complaint with AG over nearly $1,000 open records charge2016-04-18T13:27:12-05:00

Sunshine Week: The Eagle reports on Texas universities and open records

2014-03-20T18:44:02-05:00

By Allen Reed The Bryan-College Station Eagle Originally published March 18, 2014 It's Sunshine Week, so let's look at how many information requests were sent to the top universities in Texas last year and how many of those are referred to the Texas attorney general. In February, The Eagle asked the six university systems and their flagship institutions for “the number of information requests received during the 2013 calendar year and the number of those requests for which an attorney general ruling was sought.” Last year, for example, Texas A&M received about 890 open records requests and sent about 10 percent [...]

Sunshine Week: The Eagle reports on Texas universities and open records2014-03-20T18:44:02-05:00
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