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Table of Contents

Chapter 1:
Winning Access to State Records: A Primer on the Texas Public Information Act

Chapter 2:
Getting into Meetings in Texas: A Primer on the Texas Open Meetings Act

Chapter 3:
Access To Federal Records: Understanding the Freedom of Information Act

Chapter 4:
Government In The Sunshine Law: Understanding the Federal Open Meetings Law

Chapter 5:
The Hidden Danger: Invasion of Privacy

Chapter 6:
Avoiding Libel

Chapter 7:
The Evolution of Defamation Law

Chapter 8:
Reporter's Privilege

Chapter 9:
Lawsuits: Reducing the Odds

Chapter 10:
Access to Federal and State Judicial Records

Chapter 11:
Cameras In the Courtroom

Appendix A:
Texas Open Meetings Law

Appendix B:
Texas Public Information Law

Appendix C:
Federal Freedom of Information Act

Appendix D:
Federal Open Meetings Law

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Absence of malice

Absence of negligence

Absolute privilege

Access

Accessible to public

Accurate quote

Actual damages

Actual malice

Administrative law judge working papers

Advisory bodies

Agency

Agency memoranda

Agency procedure

Agency record

Allegations

Appropriation for commercial profit

Attorney general’s opinion

Attorney general rulings

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

Commercial information

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

Expedited processing

Factual Falsity

Fair comment

Fair report

False light

Family court

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Federal court

Federal records

Federal Register

Federally funded agencies

Fee waiver

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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

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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

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