Requests that the Texas attorney general withhold information
requested by the public increased 88 percent in five years, according
to a Caller-Times analysis of state records.
It’s a trend that open-government advocates say could indicate an abuse of the state system by local governments.
The city of Corpus Christi sought to deny more than a third of the
requests it received for public information in 2008 and nearly half the
requests in the first six months of 2009. The practice mirrors a
pattern among state agencies and Texas cities: referring an increasing
percentage of requests to the attorney general for review and possible
denial, despite no major changes in the law’s exceptions that allow
some types of information to be withheld.
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