City of Houston v. Kallinen

OPINION ON REHEARING

Jane Bland, Justice

In this appeal, we determine whether the City of Houston must pay attorney’s fees to compensate a citizen who pursued and won access to information under the Texas Public Information Act. Invoking the PIA, Randall Kallinen asked the City of Houston to disclose information regarding a traffic-light camera study that the City had commissioned. The City granted part of the request, but it withheld some documents while it sought an opinion from the Attorney General about whether the withheld documents were subject to disclosure. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. §…