1. The State of Texas, via the Texas Public Information Act (great resource here:
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/2018-06/PIA_handbook_2018_0.pdf)
2. WTAF via Patreon (not sure if allowed to link here, but username WickedTruths on the Patreon site)
Am I reading this correctly? Some of the information contained in the release is 'confidential' under state statute (pages 64 and 65) and is an exemption to disclosure.
"a. State Statutes
The attorney general must interpret numerous confidentiality statutes. Examples of information made confidential by statute include the following noteworthy examples:
medical records that a physician creates or maintains regarding the identity, diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment of a patient;318
reports, records, and working papers used or developed in an investigation of alleged child abuse or neglect under Family Code chapter 261;319
certain information relating to the provision of emergency medical services;320
communications between a patient and a mental health professional and records of the identity, diagnosis, or treatment of a mental health patient created or maintained by a mental health professional;321 and
certain personal information in a government-operated utility customer’s account records if the customer has requested that the utility keep the information confidential.322"
and also under Common Law Privacy. (pages 68 ad 69)
"(a) Generally Section 552.101 also excepts from required public disclosure information held confidential under case law. Pursuant to the Texas Supreme Court decision in Indus. Found. v. Tex. Indus. Accident Bd., 330 section 552.101 applies to information when its disclosure would constitute the common-law tort of invasion of privacy through the disclosure of private facts. To be within this common-law tort, the information must (1) contain highly intimate or embarrassing facts about a person’s private affairs such that its release would be highly objectionable to a reasonable person and (2) be of no legitimate concern to the public.331 Because much of the information that a governmental body holds is of legitimate concern to the public, the doctrine of common-law privacy frequently will not exempt information that might be considered “private.”"
and further:
"The attorney general has concluded that, with the exception of victims of sexual assault, 333 section 552.101 does not categorically except from required public disclosure, on common-law privacy grounds, the names of crime victims.334"
Is there a Privacy Attorney in the house?