The Collin County District Attorney is proud of their forced blood draw DWI program. They bragged about it to the media, and on the TDCAA message board. However, they were less enthusiastic when it came to my open records request. As I expected the Collin County DA fired off a…
WikiFOIA is running an open records expiriment. Bloggers are filing open records requests asking their Governor for email. I am proud to be part of this project and will send a request to Rick Perry today via email (my preferred method). This project is in response to a series of…
Ken Sparks, from the Colorado County DA’s office was kind enough to quickly respond to my open records request (Thanks, Ken!). Although I may disagree with my prosecutor colleagues on the issues, it is more often than not that we can work together. If only City Attorneys were as cooperative…
Many of you want to know more about Texas Open Records. My open records 101 details the process I use to get open records. In an effort to further educate the public, and train more citizens to pursue open records, I have cut and pasted this FAQ from the Texas…
To recap- I filed an open records request for any local DWI enforcement materials developed or used by Wylie PD. At trial two officers testified these materials did not exist. Through an open records request I learned that not only do such materials exists, but the City tried to withold…
The City of Austin finally turned over their records on the Austin PD/Austin Energy Warrantless surveillance program. To recap, Austin PD has a deal with Austin that gives Austin PD access to customer electricity usage information. I filed an open records request for information on the program. Austin PD fought…
The Harris County DA is in turmoil for a number of recent events. One being an email that mentioned problematic “Canadian” jurors. This email was sent between Prosecutors. “Canadians” being a code work for African Americans. I filed an open records request to the Dallas District Attorney’s office to see…
Austin Energy Warrantless Surveillance To recap- Austin Police and Austin Energy have an agreement that allows for warrantless surveillance of consumer electricity bills. Austin PD uses this information to search for marijuana growing operations sans warrant. Request I filed an open records request with Austin PD and asked for internal…
Thanks to Mark Bennett for his kind words on my open records work. Open records requests are a patriotic duty. The tree of liberty may not always need the blood of tyrants, only their paper trail. I have received some email asking about the open records process. Here is how…
First, a recap- I had a DWI trial in Collin County. The arrest was made by the Wylie PD. I subpoenaed the arresting officers to bring any information on local DWI procedures to trial NHTSA has developed the standard DWI testing and arrest procedures. I was looking for any additional…