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NORTH RICHLAND HILLS PUT A $2.3 MILLION PRICE TAG ON FLOCK-CAMERA TRANSPARENCY
North Richland Hills quoted about $2.3 million to process a public-records request involving Flock cameras.

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When the Government Controls the Prison and the Healthcare, Denying Treatment Is More Than a Policy Debate
Aqua RichJo | September 29, 2026 The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to let it enforce restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender people in federal prisons while a lawsuit continues. The Justice Department filed the emergency request Monday, September 28. The Court has not ruled on it. The request puts a direct question before the justices: Can the Bureau of Prisons put its new policy into effect now, despite a lower-court order blocking it?

Aqua RichJo
Sep 292 min read


If Nobody Admits They Meant to Discriminate, Does the Discrimination Suddenly Stop Counting?
Aqua RichJo | September 28, 2026 A school rule can look the same on paper for every student and still produce sharply unequal outcomes. For years, federal civil-rights officials could examine that kind of disparate impact when deciding whether a school policy needed to change. The Trump administration has narrowed that approach, according to an Associated Press review of changes in federal school oversight. In July, the U.S. Department of Education removed disparate-impact pr

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Sep 282 min read


Dallas Put Cameras on Trash Trucks. Now Residents Want to Know Who’s Watching—and What Gets Saved.
Aqua RichJo | September 26, 2026 A camera on a Dallas sanitation truck captured a license plate its system was supposed to blur. The city caught the mistake and manually covered the plate before releasing the image in response to a public-records request. Dallas Code Compliance says it has since strengthened its privacy procedures and asked contractor City Detect to run stored images through its blurring system again. www.nbcdfw.com That plate was not released unredacted in t

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Sep 262 min read
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