Texas anti-terror law used to deny wide range of public information requests

In 2010, concerned about perceived inequities among the Birdville school district's three high schools, a local resident asked to look at blueprints of one school's athletic area.

But administrators for the Tarrant County district refused to release the information, which until recently had been posted on its website.

The reason: terrorism.

The building plans "detail particular vulnerabilities of the high school's athletic area to a terrorist attack," such as the location of "fire alarms, sprinklers, electrical outlets, entrances, dimension of walls, and switch boxes," stated a letter filed with the state attorney general's office, which decides open records disputes in Texas. The drawings could "provide potential killers with the outline of their attack."

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