Friday, March 28, 2014

Judge: Private prisons subject to open records laws

A Travis County judge has ruled that private prison firms are subject to the Texas Public Information Act. See Techdirt and the Courthouse News Service for more details. Congrats to Prison Legal News and the Texas Civil Rights Project on an important legal victory. See a related press release and the motion for summary judgment. UPDATE: Here's the judge's one-page ruling in the case. Thanks to a commenter for sending it along.

4 comments:

John Delaney said...

Grits, I went to the two links you labeled "lawsuit" and "ruling." Both went to the "Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment." No ruling found.

Gritsforbreakfast said...

Sorry, I thought one of those links was to the ruling but must have misread. Will post it when I find it. Either way, the plaintiff won.

Anonymous said...

I don't have a link but I can email you a .pdf if you send me an email.

Cindy Saiter Connolly

Gritsforbreakfast said...

Cindy, it's gritforbreakfast@gmail.com. Thanks!