The Texas Observer writes about the LTISD’s attack against citizen’s and the Texas Public Information Act.

Posted on January 18, 2008 by David Lovelace.
Categories: Board, Other, Public Information.

Cody Garrett at the Texas Observer has recently written an article about the LTISD’s attack against me for exercising my rights to ask that my government provide information regarding how my tax dollars are being spent.

I find Marco Alvarado’s comment in the Texas Observer’s article: “He said the Lovelaces’ requests have included everything but the district’s kitchen sink, including “financial information, personnel items, construction information, bond information…”

I guess that my next request will be for information regarding “the district’s kitchen sink.”

Let’s see, what is wrong with asking about “financial information, personnel items, construction information, bond information…” regarding my government, a public entity supported by citizen’s tax dollars?

Ooops, I guess that Marco, who said “we try to comply,” forgot to read the first paragraph of the Texas Public Information Act (TPIA) which says:

“Under the fundamental philosophy of the American constitutional form of representative government that adheres to the principle that government is the servant and not the master of the people, it is the policy of this state that each person is entitled, unless otherwise expressly provided by law, at all times to complete information about the affairs of government and the official acts of public officials and employees. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.“

Hey Marco, aren’t you supposed to have been “educated” about the TPIA?

“Effective January 1, 2006, elected and appointed public officials are required by a state law to receive training in Texas open government laws. The Office of the Attorney General offers free video training courses, which were developed in compliance with a mandate from the 79th Texas Legislature that the Attorney General establish the formal training necessary to ensure that all elected and appointed government officials have a good command of both open records and open meetings laws.”

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