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TDNA Board of Directors
President
Patrick S. Cantv
Odessa American
Volume 5, Issue 2 February 15, 2012
Vice President
Bill Patterson
Denton Record-Chronicle
Treasurer
Brenda Miller-Feraerson
ASP Westward
Chairman
Matt Oliver
Hearst Newspapers
Directors
Dwavne Bivona
Wichita Falls Times Record News
Public Notice under fire around U.S. and in Texas
Newspaper associations and open government advocates around
the United States have been successfully fighting proposals this
year to move public notices out of newspapers and allow the
information to merely be posted online.
Both New Jersey and Florida have already fought public notice bills
that would have had a huge affect. In Virginia, an unprecedented
eight bills have already been filed to change public notice laws in
that state.
Jeff DeLoach
San Anaelo Standard-Times
Bill Offill
Beaumont Enterprise
Steve Paterson
Port Arth 'r News
Les Simpson
Amarillo Globe-New
Tom Stamper
Lonqview News-Journal
Roger Will
Star Community Newspapers
Gary Wortel
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
TDNA Staff
Executive Vice President
Ken Whalen
Member Services Director
Cvndi Brown
The impetus for this legislation is usually to save money. Lega
notice is both a revenue source and a public information issue for
newspapers.
While the Texas Legislature is not in session this year, one Texas
newspaper recently had to fight this issue close to home - with its
local city council. The Victoria Advocate successfully argued against
a change in the city's home-rule charter that would have eliminated
the requirement for newspaper publication - inadvertently, says
the amendment's author.
According to the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, the
Victoria councilman's proposal to "add additional means of public
communication" by proposing to eliminate an existing city
requirement to publish public notices in the local newspaper could
have done more harm than good. The councilman said "his
intention with the proposition was to create a contingency plan if
The Advocate's presses one day stopped running" by providing
additional "electronic options" such as text messages, emails and
the Internet.
However, there is no apparent reason for such concern. The
Advocate has served the citizens of Victoria for 165-years and has
publicly stated it has no plans to quit doing so anytime soon. In
other words, spending time and city resources now developing
alternatives for the future seems premature and unnecessary.
The councilman now says he plans to add an amendment to his
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Brown, Cyndi. eBulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 15, 2012, periodical, February 15, 2012; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299912/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .