Texas Governor says his emails with Elon Musk “intimate or embarrassing” that cannot be released

Texas Governor Greg Abbott rejected the issuance of e -mail messages valued for months that were sent to Elon Musk and his companies under public record laws, according to A joint report from ProPublicaand The news room in TexasAnd Texas Tribune. After approval at the beginning of the information request, the ruler’s office argued that emails are covered by a law prohibiting the detection of “intimate or embarrassing” information.

The news room in TexasWho achieves Musk effect On the Texas government, he asked the ruler’s office in April to share emails with billionaire dating back to last fall. Although the ruler’s office was a fee of $ 244 to raise records, The news room in Texas Reports that he later refused to follow up the request

in message To the Public Prosecutor in Texas, whom he shared The news room in TexasOne of the general information coordinators of Greg Abbott said that emails consist of “intimate and liberated information and not a legitimate concern for the public”, such as “financial decisions that are not related to transactions between the individual and the government body.”

As noted The news room in TexasThis language is a “somewhat boiler”, which is derived from exempting the privacy of a common law for requests for general disclosure on Public Prosecutor website Ken Pakston. Spacex, based in Texas, Similarly object To reveal its emails, claiming that it contains information that would cause “great competitive damage”.

Earlier this year, for example, The news room in Texas The published email messages Calendar information that reveals that a representative in Texas has planned several meetings with representatives from Spacex. It also showed that the governor of Texas Dan Patrick wrote a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration to help persuade the agency to allow Spacex increases the number From the firing of the missiles.