Chron reporter Matt Stiles recently blogged about HCC and its stonewalling of his public information requests.
Today, he blogs about the latest excuses for the stonewalling from the HCC IT people, and concludes:
This is a common excuse from governmental agencies who resist releasing aggregate data electronically. Surely the folks at the county, HISD and the city of Houston — who have released this information before — had to “join tables, write complex queries and subroutines, test the output and extract the data into spreadsheets or flat files.”
They just seemed to get it done about 68 hours faster than HCC.
He also follows up with an informative reply to some reader comments.
If HCC thinks they’re going to get over on this reporter, they’re almost certainly going to learn otherwise.
The question is, why are they trying to get over on anyone? It’s the public’s information.
