More funding approved for Office of Open Records Counsel

By |2016-03-10T08:48:15-06:00February 16, 2016|Categories: Legislature, Office of Open Records Counsel|Tags: , |0 Comments

The Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee voted today to approve $264,000 requested by Comptroller Justin Wilson to add two positions to the Office of Open Records Counsel. Wilson told the committee that the numbers of inquiries to the office have grown "exponentially" since it was created in 2008. With one person in the office now, it can not meet the demand, he said. Comptroller Justin Wilson "The numbers really don't show the growth here because the issues have become extremely more complex, more difficult, more controversial and have a higher profile (that's) really developed in the last eight years," Wilson said. "We simply don't have the capacity [...]