Above the Law

by Alex Hannaford
Mon, May 2, 2016
at 9:29 am CST

... Rachel Gallegos had just gotten home for a meeting of the Edwards County Democratic Party ...

Ten minutes after the start of the meeting ... there was a loud knock at the door — Sheriff Elliott. “She came to the door in uniform and was about to come in, so I held the door and said, ‘May I help you?’” Gallegos says.

According to Gallegos, Elliott said she had a right to attend the meeting and that she’d received permission from the Texas attorney general to be there under the Open Meetings Act. “She held her boot in the door and I told her to have him call me — that if he said she could be there I’d let her in,” Gallegos says. “And nobody ever called me, of course” ...

A month later, she received an email from Timothy Juro, an attorney in the Texas Secretary of State’s office. He confirmed that a meeting of the local party’s executive committee would not fall under the Open Meetings Act ...

https://www.texasobserver.org/above-the-law-pamela-elliott-sheriff/