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Judicial activism by TX Supreme Court creates new right to privacy, but only for government workers

The Corpus Christi Caller Times today published an excellent op ed from the director of Texas' Freedom of Information Foundation on the ill-considered judicial activism by the Texas' Supreme Court to create, based on no statute or precedent, a new privacy right which applies solely to government employees. The column opens: It is the job of the Texas Legislature to draft the laws of this state, not that of the courts. This doctrine, basic to the separation of powers of the branches of government, and a canon of conservative political philosophy, has been turned on its head by the Texas Supreme Court. In its zeal to exempt birth dates of governmental employees from release under the Texas Public Information Act, the court has created an entirely new right to privacy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 02, 2011 (boomark / email).