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This just in!
The Texas Attorney General’s office recently issued an opinion saying:
“Summary: The “radio station” exception to section 552.275 of the Government Code encompasses a person who holds an amateur radio station license issued by the Federal Communications Commission.” -Attorney General Opinion No. GA-0669
This was a result of a letter from Texas State Senator Jeff Wentworth to the Texas Attorney General’s office regarding a provision of the Texas Public Information Act (TPIA) established by recently enacted legislation (HB2564).
The issue was whether an “amateur radio station license” met the criteria of “a radio or television station that holds a license issued by the Federal Communications Commission” (Section 552.275 of the TPIA). This particular section of the TPIA exempts certain entities from the 36 hour annual time limit that a government body spends in responding to a citizen’s request for public information.
I guess that Chris Gilbert’s time (paid for by our tax dollars) spent researching the subject was wasted? In fact Chris did seem a bit worried about this during his presentation to the appeals court.
Well, I guess they will have to get that great “common law” scholar and lobbyist J. David Thompson III to go out and get the legislature to fix another problem, a problem which really does not exist.
All to often I forget the lobbyist’s mantra: “Let’s not let FACTS get in the way. What do FACTS have to do with PERCEPTIONS?”
Note: If you read Jeff Wentworth’s letter, it says that you can watch the video and see the process by which the amendments to HB2564 were added.
I took the liberty of capturing the relative 2-3 minutes of that process (The entire video referenced by Senator Wentworth is over 8 hours!) and posted the relative part here for you to see without all the wait.
Listen carefully …
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