Open records

A State Board of Education meeting scheduled for Thursday was postponed to avoid a potential Open Meeting Act violation.

The state has battled to keep secret key documents related to an assault by prison guards that left a man in a coma.

The Republican secretary of state asked a private company to shut off a software function that makes it easy to retrieve certain public information.

In a major blow to the state’s government transparency laws, Texas’ highest criminal court has struck down a significant provision of the Texas Open...