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Dog on Dog Open-Government Action, the Fiction of the Consensual Police Encounter, and other stories

Here are a few items I ran across recently that deserve Grits readers' attention:Backstory on breaking Austin open government scandalGet the full background on the Austin City Council Open Government Scandal when the Jennifer Peebles at the Texas Watchdog interviews Ken Martin at the Austin Bulldog in a TW podcast. That's a lot of dog on dog action. Interesting stuff; Martin dishes a lot of juicy details about who concealed what and how the story was broken. They've stopped the illegal meetings, says Martin, but the City is still concealing emails where City Councilmembers performed city business on their personal email accounts, a clear violation of years of precedent from the Texas Attorney General. Which is probably why, also in violation of the law, the City of Austin did not request an opinion from the Attorney General...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 13, 2011 (boomark / email).