Texas Governor says that emails “intimate and liberated” with Elon Musk should remain secret

Texas is a ruler Greg Abbott Don’t want To reveal the most famous communications with Elon Musk Or representatives of the technology mogul companies, on the pretext that they are of a special nature, and not in general and perhaps embarrassing.

Musk had a legislative session full of events in Texas this year. In addition to that his pressure groups successfully call for many new laws, Abbott was martyred Timing and Spacex The CEO as a source of inspiration for the country that creates its competence office and praised him to transfer the headquarters of many of his work to the state in recent years.

As part of the effort Track the effect of billionaire In the government building, the newsroom in Texas asked April from Abbott and his employees e -mail messages since last fall with Musk and other people with an email address linked to some of his companies.

Initially, the ruler’s office said it would take more than 13 hours to review the records. I made an estimate of a cost of $ 244.64 to work and requires full payment in advance. The news room in Texas agreed and cut the check.

After disbursing the check, the governor’s office told the Texas Chamber in Texas that he believed that all records were confidential and asked the Texas Prosecutor Ken Buckston, whose office in the office opposes public records, allowing documents to privacy.

Matthew Taylor, General Information Coordinator in Abbott, Give The records should not be released. He said that they include special exchanges with lawyers, and details about the decisions of policy -making and information that would reveal how the state seduces companies to invest here. They wrote to the public, he wrote: “It will have a chilling effect on the explicit and open discussion necessary for the decision -making process.”

Taylor also argued that communications are confidential according to an exception to the laws of public records known as “the privacy of joint law” because it consists of “intimate and liberated information and not a legitimate concern for the public, including financial decisions that are not related to transactions between the individual and the government body.”

Not provided more details about the precise content of the records.

The language office used in ABBOTT seems to be somewhat used. Pakston office, in explanation Excuse the privacy of joint law On its website, it is mentioned that “personal financial information” that does not deal with government transactions “in general is intimate or embarrassing in general and must be blocked.”

But Bill Alychee, a lawyer in Texas, a specialist in public records law, was afraid that the ruler claims that months of emails between his office and one of the richest people in the world are all private.

“At the present time, they seem to have made $ 244 for records that have no intention to give you,” said Alychee. “This is shocking.”

Alecire said it is not unusual for government agencies to take advantage of the exclusion of the privacy of joint law in an attempt to block records from the public. But it is used to being martyred in cases that include children, medical data, or other personal information – not for email messages between an elected official and a businessman.

“You are boxing in the dark,” said Elishire. “You cannot even see what is the goal or beyond their demands.”

Alisheer added that it is because of a conversation Texas Supreme Court rulingThere is no effective way to impose public record laws against Abbott and other senior state officials. The decision called as the “Ace Card” for these politicians.

The case dealt with the requests to issue Abbott and Pakaston Etisalat in the wake of the January 6 attack on the American Capitol and 2022 School shooting at UVALDE. The Supreme Court ruled that this is the only body that can review whether these officials are in line with the laws of public records.

Kevin Bagnal, a lawyer representing the musk missile company Spacex, also wrote a letter To the Buckston office, which argues that emails remain confidential. He pointed to one of the main reasons: It contains “commercial information that may cause significant competitive damage to Spacex.”

Most of the Pavenal messages, which showed the Spacex argument.

Musk and representatives of his companies did not respond to requests to comment on this story.

Abbot’s spokesman did not answer specific questions about the records, including whether the news room in Texas will be replied if Pakston is blocked.

In a statement, he said: “The ruler’s office is accumulated accurately with the General Information Law in Texas and will issue any respondent information designed on the lack of secrecy or with the exception of disclosure.”

The Public Prosecutor’s Office has 45 working days to determine whether Abbott records will be released.