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Forensic Science commissioner resigns to avoid revealing public info

Somehow I'd missed that one of Governor Perry's recent appointees to the Texas Forensic Science Commission - Bexar County Medical Examiner Randall Frost - had resigned in October just weeks after his appointment because he wouldn't reveal immediate family members' names or assets required on state ethics disclosures.There's got to be more to this than was reported. Frost wrote in his resignation letter to Perry, "I am unwilling to disclose the names of my family members or the addresses of our residence, my spouse's business and our other properties, knowing that the information would then become public record." But that's a really strange claim. His home address and other property ownership is already a public record in real property records held by the county...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).