When Texas Says No

Across 426,021 OAG open-records rulings, 4.6% were classified as full release. Search the agencies, record types and provisions behind the statewide pattern.

Fifty-four public actions trace the runway from tax policy and local deals to grid pressure and a changing state posture.

TCAD confirmed 15 entity-held homestead exemptions for removal — five claiming the senior break. A company has no birthday.

14,901 licence plate readers, 254 counties, 12,675 disclosed sharing grants — and no state law governing any of it.

Sorted high to low. Harris holds more people than the 185 smallest counties put together.

$340.6M in six months. Thirty checks of $1M+ outweighed a million small gifts combined, 3.6 to 1.

194 donors gave to two or more Harris County campaigns — and two of the biggest also bill the county as vendors.

1,316 accounts flagged across 254 counties, 662 referral-ready. Leads, not determinations.

Bar revenue doubled to $10.3B — but in seven counties the last bar closed and the whole county went dry.