The Texas Public Information Act (Government Code §552.001) establishes that government information is presumed open to the public. Any Texas resident is entitled to request records from a Texas governmental body. LION uses that right at scale.

Requests are filed through the LION Network — a free public signup. Each member’s right to ask is a distinct statutory request. Members consent to LION filing on their behalf under a LION-controlled handle; their real names are held confidentially and not disclosed except under lawful compulsion. Filing through a network of distinct requesters preserves what a single-person operation cannot: the right of every Texan to ask, asserted on every request.

When an agency refuses a request, charges punitive fees, or fails to produce records within the statutory window, LION escalates to the Texas Attorney General. Obstruction of public records is itself documented and published.

Our goal is that every factual claim on a LION public page carries a citation to its primary source — the original document, the dated meeting record, the statute, the agency filing. Inline linked citation is the preferred form.

District pages carry a Brief on the top that reflects current status. The timeline is append-only: events are recorded in the order they happened, with the event date — not the publication date — controlling. When a status meaningfully shifts, the Brief is rewritten; the underlying record stays intact.

Each district page lists its primary sources inline and in section-end citation blocks. Open the cited record. Read the statute. Watch the meeting recording. The work is built to be checked against its sources, not taken on trust.

If a citation does not resolve, a document link is broken, or a quoted record does not match the source, write corrections@lionwatchtx.org.

Last updated: April 2026

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