Forgive your correspondent for not bringing you any news in the last couple of weeks. Let me call your attention to a useful guide by Scott Medlock of the Texas Civil Rights Project, in which he explains how to request public information in Texas.
Mr. Medlock is a lawyer who works on behalf of incarcerated people in Texas — prisoners’ rights, in other words. Gabriel Solis and Kimberly Ambrosini-Bacon of the Texas After Violence Project interviewed Mr. Medlock in 2010.