We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.

The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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@ProPublica If only "being embarrassing" to those in power was a sufficient excuse to not release official records that as a matter of law belong to the public. OH WAIT, the Texas Supreme Court recently said it is...

It's a shame that it never seems to occur to our public officials that the best way to not be embarrassed isn't to sweep evidence of the embarrassing acts under the rug after the fact, but rather to not do the embarrassing things in the first place.

@ProPublica Extract: “common-law privacy: information that is intimate and embarrassing and not of legitimate concern to the public, including financial decisions that do not relate to transactions between an individual and a governmental body.”
So basically, the first sentence reads like pedophilia or #EvangelicalChristian gay sex, the second, like paying for prostitutes or #corruption.
Can't wait, even #MAGA media will want in on that!
@ProPublica That's... not a legitimate reason to hide emails you sent and received as a public servant. If some mid-level bureaucrat sexts their colleague using a government issued device, it's public record even if it's not of any particular relevance to the public and can certainly be used against the official if they're accused of inappropriately steering a government contract to their lover's firm. Same for governors.