On Sept. 1, Texas implemented amendments to its public information statute giving it more teeth to enforce the law when government correspondence is made on government workers’ personal devices.

Advocates for Senate Bill 944 say it’s a needed step that all states, if they haven’t already, should enact to close a personal device loophole that leaves many government agencies’ records requests at a standstill. 

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