Attorney General Ken Paxton denied Friday that he violated the state’s open records law, rejecting allegations by a local prosecutor that his office should...
Attorney General Ken Paxton denied Friday that he violated the state’s open records law, rejecting allegations by a local prosecutor that his office should release communications from the week of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
“Frustrated that they have failed to uncover anything worth reporting following ‘numerous records requests to AG Paxton office for various documents,’ complainant newspaper editors have sought to leverage your office’s authority to further their fishing expedition, or worse, manufacture a conflict between our respective offices that will give rise to publishable content for the complainants’ media outlets,” wrote Paxton’s general counsel, Austin Kinghorn.
“We believe these records are public and should be released,” the statement said. “We hope the Travis County district attorney continues to hold the attorney general accountable for following our state’s open records laws and continues to advocate for the public’s right to know in this case.” Wood said Paxton’s office was violating the law by claiming all his messages around the time of the Jan. 6 rally fell under attorney-client privilege. Wood noted nearly 500 pages of communications to and from First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster during that same time frame had been released, and no exemption was cited for those records.
The attorney general’s office’s record retention schedule defines “transitory information” as “records of temporary usefulness that are not an integral part of a record series of an agency” and cites examples such as internal meeting notices, routing slips and telephone message notifications.
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