Then there was the guy who may have been overly eager to be transparent.

The Caller-Times in Corpus Christi reports that Adan Munoz, the executive director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, was indicted by the Nueces County grand jury on charges he improperly released a document relating to an inmate suicide at the Nueces County jail. The charges allege the records were not Munoz’ to release.

The story reports:

"Nueces County Sheriff Jim Kaelin said Munoz responded to a public records request from at least one reporter by sending a document from an ongoing criminal investigation at the Nueces County Jail.

'"That form wasn’t theirs to release; it was ours,' said Kaelin, who ordered the investigation into the release of the information. 'Without any forethought, this document was released without redaction even though it is exempt from open records.'"

Seems that after the Feb. 7 suicide, a commission inspector visited the Nueces County jail and found a problem with the intake form for the inmate. A few days later, Sheriff Kaelin was reading the news and saw some info that, he claims, should not have been public.

Check out the lively comments section on the story, which is also reported by ABC affiliate KIII.

Contact Steve Miller at 832-303-9420 or stevemiller@texaswatchdog.org.

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