Rio Grande City officials called Ediel Barrera’s requests “vague or ambiguous.”
Flags fly over Rio Grande City Hall in 2021. Town officials say they have a backlog of public records requests due to an unprecedented volume of requests from a city commissioners candidate.— a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.
Barrera is a candidate for city commissioner in the upcoming May election. He is part of a slate of three candidates that includes his lawyer Gilberto Falcon. Falcon is running for mayor. Their campaign slogan is"Independent Leadership." Barrera’s intended use of public records as a campaign weapon is part of a growing trend. Public agencies across the country increasingly have had to sort through an influx of public records requestsElections offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, Arizona and Virginia said such requests submitted after President Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020 prevented them from focusing on the 2022 election.
He also clarified that the motive behind the announcement on social media was to provide basic information to the public. "Anytime a government does try to communicate with the public and let them know what's happening, that's a plus," Shannon said."But, for those waiting for public information act requests to be filled, I'm sure it's frustrating."
He also requested a status update on a rehabilitation project for the city’s water treatment plant, a list of environmental violations, copies of city budgets since 2020, expenditure reports for the mayor and city commissioners, a status update on a sewer project, copies of all checks paid to an electric company and information on contracts, salary and other monetary compensation made to the city’s parks and recreation director.
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