Retaliation Alleged in Indictment of Jail Official

The top state jail official's penchant for transparency just might land him in one of the clinks he's supposed to oversee.

In an indictment that open government advocates call outrageous and that others believe is nothing more than retaliation, the Nueces County District Attorney charged Adan Muñoz, the executive director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, with two counts of misusing official information. The indictment alleges that Muñoz used his office to illegally release confidential information related to a suicide in the Nueces County Jail. Release of the information incensed Nueces County Sheriff Jim Kaelin ...

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