Open records

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found nearly three dozen school districts were missing required campaign finance reports online. Now lawmakers are pushing to impose steep penalties on local governments that fail to abide by the law.

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...