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.
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4 comments:

  1. John Delaney3/28/2014 11:19:00 AM

    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.

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  2. Gritsforbreakfast3/28/2014 12:03:00 PM

    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.

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  3. Anonymous3/28/2014 01:05:00 PM

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

    Cindy Saiter Connolly

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  4. Gritsforbreakfast3/28/2014 01:28:00 PM

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

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