AUSTIN — The Travis County district attorney’s office will not proceed with a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for refusal to release his...
Despite determining that the attorney general likely violated the state’s open records law, the district attorney’s office said it would not sue because journalists who had requested Paxton’s records declined to testify in court in order to protect their sources.
“We were encouraged that the district attorney agreed that Paxton’s office violated the law,” said Maria Reeve, executive editor of the. “We hoped that those facts would be sufficient for a lawsuit to proceed — and that our reporters would not need to testify.” The district attorney’s office launched its investigation of Paxton’s office after editors at Texas’ largest newspapersTexas Attorney General must turn over records related to Jan. 6 Trump rally or face lawsuit, DA says
In a hand-delivered letter to Paxton on Jan. 14, Jackie Wood, director of public integrity and complex crimes, stated her office concurred with the allegations in the editors’ complaint and gave Paxton four days to cure the violations or face a lawsuit.Wood later asked the journalists if they’d be willing to testify in court about the roadblocks they encountered trying to obtain records from the attorney general’s office.
“Therefore, it is the decision of this office not to proceed to seek declaratory and injunctive relief in order to bring Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Office of the Attorney General into compliance with the public information requirements of the Texas Government Code,” Public Integrity Unit Team Leader Rob DrummondAnyone can file a complaint with a local prosecutor if they believe a public agency is withholding information in violation of the Texas Public Information Act.
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