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Joe Larsen

Attorney, Gregor Cassidy PLLC

Joe Larsen is an attorney in Houston with Gregor Cassidy PLLC, a board member and chair of the review committee for the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and recipient of FOIFT’s 2010 James Madison Award.

Latest Columns

Government

R.I.P., the Texas Public Information Act

By Joe Larsen, Dec. 7, 2018

Unless there is a political price to pay for denying Texans their right to an open government, that government will be open only for special interests and the interests of the officeholders themselves, not for the Texas public. The rest of us will be cut out.

Government

How to make Texas government less transparent

By Joe Larsen, Aug. 18, 2016

All areas of government benefit from transparency. But sunlight is most necessary at that juncture where private enterprise is paid out of the public burse.