Regardless of which communications you and I might believe should be held private, the council’s proposed new ordinance overlooks a really big issue.
Texas law says that records created or maintained with public money are public property.
“Local government records created or received in the transaction or official business or the creation or maintenance of which were paid for by public funds are declared to be public property …”
Who wrote the e-mails and the capacity they were serving at the time are not important if the e-mails are stored on city property or with city money. They are public property by state law. The Public Information Act does consider certain types of communication in e-mails (like account and phone numbers) to be private and thus not subject to disclosure. People are already protected.
This ordinance is a sham.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Cato
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The issue should come back up next week and they should be made to put it on the Charter Amendments . This will stop theirhide and seak game before the election OR as soon as it is passed we should have an injuctionn in place from the AG to stop it!
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