Legal Opinion
Ken Paxton, Attorney General of the State of Texas v. Texas Department of State Health Services
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided August 31, 2016No. 03-14-00594-CVPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Jeff Rose, Chief Justice
The Attorney General appeals from a summary judgment granted to the Texas Department of State Health Services in a declaratory action under the Texas Public Information Act (PIA). 1 The Department sued the Attorney General after his Open Records Division rejected the Department’s request to withhold information collected by the Office of . the Inspector General (OIG) during an investigation into employee misconduct by two Department employees. The Department had sought to withhold the information under a Government Code provision that makes information and…
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