{"id":477,"date":"2008-01-18T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T03:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/public-records\/texas-state-employee-birth-dates-are-public-records\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:53:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T22:53:07","slug":"texas-state-employee-birth-dates-are-public-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/public-records\/texas-state-employee-birth-dates-are-public-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Employee Birth Dates Are Public Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas 3rd District Court of Appeals in Austin ruled on January 17, 2008 that the birth dates of Texas state employees are a matter of public record.<\/p>\n<p>A public records legal battle over the birth date information began two years ago when Dallas Morning News reporter Jennifer LaFleur attempted to gain access to a current copy of the Texas state employee payroll database. The Texas comptroller&#8217;s office released most of the database; but, unlike in years past, decided to exclude the birth dates of the state employees.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn fought to make the birth dates private due to a fear of possible identity theft of state employees personal information.<\/p>\n<p>The comptroller&#8217;s office is deciding on a possible appeal to the Texas Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcfp.org\/news\/2008\/0118-foi-courtr.html\">rcfp.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas 3rd District Court of Appeals in Austin ruled on January 17, 2008 that the birth dates of Texas state employees are a matter of public record. A public records legal battle over the birth date information began two years ago when Dallas Morning News reporter Jennifer LaFleur attempted to gain access to a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/public-records\/texas-state-employee-birth-dates-are-public-records\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Texas State Employee Birth Dates Are Public Records<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6139,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/6139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}