Did you know that the LTISD spent at least $451 to answer a public information request from a reporter!

Posted on December 8, 2007 by David Lovelace.
Categories: Administration, Finance, Legal, Public Information.

The LTISD complains about the cost of self inflicted PIA costs and here they go again wasting our money on answers to a reporters PIA requests?

Why does the LTISD feel it necessary to spend your tax dollars employing lawyers to answer information that should be public?

Why are they spending your tax dollars attempting to throw a legal smoke screen to the information which we are entitled?

The reporter, Raven Hill of the Austin American-Statesman, made a request to the LTISD on October 4, 2006TPIA. The LTISD employed the lawyers at Walsh, Anderson, Brown, Schulze & Aldridge to answer her request, at a cost of course.

No wonder why the LTISD complains about the Texas Public Information Act!

They are spending a lot of money to answer requests for public information, and it is not all due to me. I don’t think that was the intent of the law, but Rocky sure is beating the drum at the state legislature over his inept management of the district’s resources fighting a law intended to keep the government from hiding information from the citizens who pay his salary.

This is but one example of their spending of our tax dollars to answer public information act requests. If space would permit, I could show you many more.