Vince at Capitol Annex says that Sen. Kevin Eltife wants to close the loophole that lets school systems publicly identify only one person in the running for a school superintendent's job. His bill would stipulate that anybody who gets interviewed for the job would be considered a finalist and would have to be identified.

From Vince:

Almost every school district in the state that has selected a new superintendent since the adoption of the “finalist” exception to the Public Information Act in the mid-1990s has used the exception as a shield to hide from public view the names of the de facto finalists for such positions by merely publicly designating only one “finalist” no matter how many finalists were actually interviewed.

That's Senate Bill 503, which you can read the text of at this link on the legislature's Web site. We're going to add it to our bill watch list for sure.

Some Twitter news while we're at it: We're proposing another hashtag -- #txfoi, which we've used just a few times before. We'll put #txfoi in all our tweets regarding open records, open meetings and open government in Texas. We encourage you to do the same, if you feel like it.

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