One of our favorite blogs, the law-related site Grits for Breakfast, is putting a whipping on Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott for not making public records public in cases like school districts' police forces' use-of-force policies and the Cameron Todd Willingham execution case:

There's just no excuse for keeping these records from the public. The law enforcement exception to the Public Information Act simply doesn't allow police departments to keep use of force policies secret, whether or not the officers work for a school. Information about individual incidents may be another matter, depending on the circumstances, but the policies are public records, and should be.

Amen to that. Grits says Abbott, a Republican, is better on open records than his predecessors John Cornyn (also a Repub) and Dan Morales (a Dem), but says Abbott needs to get with the program on this. Go over and take a read at the whole post.

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