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The attorney general's office objected, saying the public information representative of the state agency wasn't present and the agency wasn't notified of the request beforehand. |
Camera allowed in today's toll hearing September 24, 2007 Peggy Fikac, Express-News Austin Bureau State District Judge Orlinda Naranjo just granted a request for television cameras to film today's hearing regarding a state campaign that promotes toll roads and the Trans-Texas Corridor. Activist Terri Hall of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom and the San Antonio Toll Part is trying to stop state transportation officials from spending public money on the campaign, saying it violates a prohibition on such expenditures for political purposes. The Texas Department of Transportation says the Keep Texas Moving campaign is a response to calls from lawmakers and the public for more information on their transportation initiatives. The state attorney general's office, representing officials targeted in Hall's request for a restraining order, wants the case dismissed. Hall's lawyer, Charles Riley, immediately agreed to the request by WOAI television of San Antonio to have a camera in the courtroom. The attorney general's office objected, saying the public information representative of the state agency wasn't present and the agency wasn't notified of the request beforehand. (Naranjo threw the question to the lawyers because WOAI didn't know it was supposed to make the request ahead of time with the clerk's office). The judge ruled in favor of allowing the camera.
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