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Texas Court Holds CCA is a Governmental Body for Purposes of Public Records Law
Loaded on April 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2014, page 35
On March 19, 2014, a state district court in Travis County, Texas held that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, is considered a “governmental body” for purposes of the state’s Public Information Act and therefore subject to the Act’s “obligations to disclose public information.”
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