The
Texas
Freedom of Information
Handbook

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· Absence of malice

· Absence of negligence

· Absolute privilege

· Access

· Accessible to public

· Accurate quote

· Actual damages

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· Administrative law judge working papers

· Advisory bodies

· Agency

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· Agency procedure

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· Allegations

· Appropriation for commercial profit

· Attorney general’s opinion

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· Attorney-client privilege

· Attorney’s fees

· Bank report

· Birth and death records

· Burden

· Business disparagement

· Camera

· Canon 3A

· Canon 3A(10)

· Categories of plaintiffs

· Certified agenda

· City and county governments

· Civil court

· Civil remedies

· Clear and convincing evidence

· Collective bargaining

· Collegial body

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· Committees

· Communications to Government Officials

· Compelling need

· Computer security

· Conference

· Confidential by law

· Confidential source

· Consultation with attorney

· Contract negotiations

· Corporations as public figures

· Correction

· County rule

· Court of Appeals

· Court proceedings

· Court records

· Courtroom

· Credit and debit card access

· Credit Union Commission

· Crime victim information

· Crime watch organization participants

· Criminal court

· Criminal sanctions

· Damage

· Defamation based on a publication as a whole

· Defamation by Innuendo

· Defamation

· Defamatory Meaning

· Defense

· Deferred adjudication

· Deliberation

· Denial

· Discipline

· Document

· Due process

· Duty to search

· Eavesdropping

· Economic development organizations

· Elements

· Email addresses

· Embarrassing private facts

· Enforcement

· Estes v. Texas

· Exceptions

· Executive session

· Exemplary damages

· Exemption

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· Factual Falsity

· Fair comment

· Fair report

· False light

· Family court

· Family violence

· Fault

· Federal court

· Federal records

· Federal Register

· Federally funded agencies

· Fee waiver

· Fee

· Final action

· Financial institution

· First Amendment

· Fitness for Office

· FOIA

· Form or format

· Fourteenth Amendment

· Freedom of Information Act

· General damage

· Geological/geophysical data

· Government in the Sunshine

· Governmental bodies

· Highly embarrassing publication

· Historically underutilized or disadvantaged businesses

· Home addresses of public employees

· Injury

· Inmate information

· Internal agency rule

· Internal memoranda

· Intrusion

· Invasion of privacy

· Investment information

· Judicial branch

· Judicial proceeding

· Jury deliberation

· Juvenile

· Juvenile justice court

· Law enforcement

· Law enforcement records

· Legislative Budget Board

· Legislative proceeding

· Legitimate public concern

· Libel

· Library records

· Limited privileges

· Limited-purpose public figure

· Literal truth

· Litigation

· Local rule

· Mandamus

· Marriage license

· Material

· Medical boards/committees

· Meeting

· Military discharge

· Misquotation

· Mitigating factors

· Motor vehicle inspection information

· National defense

· National security

· Necessary or critical

· Negligence

· Negotiations for real property or donations

· No-call list

· Nominal award

· Non-governmental agencies

· Notice

· Online record

· Open Meetings Act

· Open meetings law

· Opinion

· Oral history interviews and personal papers

· Other federal statute

· Other statute

· Parole interviews

· Penalty

· Pending litigation

· Personal accusation

· Personal privacy

· Personal record

· Personnel files

· Personnel matters

· Personnel rule

· Photographs of police officers

· Premature disclosure

· Prescription forms

· Presumption of openness

· Privacy

· Privacy Act

· Private citizen

· Private corporations

· Private correspondence

· Private donors

· Privilege

· Privileged

· Privileged audits

· Public controversy

· Public figure

· Public Interest

· Public official

· Public power utility

· Public records

· Publication

· Publication of private matters

· Punitive damages

· Qualified privilege

· Quorum

· Rare books and manuscripts

· Real property

· Reasonable person

· Reasonable search

· Reckless disregard

· Records custodian

· Reliable source

· Remedies

· Request

· Retraction

· Risk

· Rule 12

· Rule 14

· Rule 18c

· Rule 21

· Rule 76A

· Rule-making bodies

· Satire

· SCAC

· Sealing records

· Securities regulation

· Security devices/personnel

· Sexual assault

· Showing of relevancy

· Social Security numbers

· Source

· Source confidentiality

· Special damage

· State agencies

· State auditor’s working papers

· State Board of Insurance

· State court

· State court administrative records

· Statute of limitation

· Statutory privileges

· Student records

· Subpoena

· Substantial truth

· Substantially false

· Suit

· Superintendent applications

· Tape recording

· Telephoto

· Test items

· Texas Code of Judicial Conduct

· Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

· Texas Growth Fund

· Texas Legislature

· Texas Public Information Act

· Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure

· Texas Rules of Civil Procedure

· Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee

· Texas Supreme Court

· Time frame

· Timely

· Tort

· Trade secret

· Two-prong test

· Unavailable

· Unfiled discovery

· Uniform rule

· University CEO applicants

· Unpublished material

· Vaughn Index

· Violation

· Working drafts