State Bar of Texas Considering New Information Request Policy

An accomplished attorney with over a decade of experience in insurance civil litigation, Anastacio “Trae” Mindiola has worked with clients out of his private law practice in Houston, Texas, since 2011. Active in his local legal community, Anastacio Mindiola maintains membership in the State Bar of Texas. 

In January of 2018, the Board of Directors for the State Bar of Texas began considering a new policy that will create a new procedure for handling internal information requests from officers and directors of the organization. The new policy would only apply to information not already covered by the Texas Public Information Act.

According to State Bar president Tom Vick, the organization does not currently have a uniform policy in place that governs the flow of this information, particularly when the executive director may have certain misgivings about the public release of certain information. Vick says the new policy would promote greater transparency in the organization while also giving the executive director final say over whether or not a particular piece of information should be released.