AG Says City Contract With Claims Firm Must Be Released

The Texas attorney general has stepped into the middle of a dispute between an injured Wichita Falls police officer and the city that has denied his workers' compensation claims. Attorney General Ken Paxton ruled this month that the city's contract with its workers' comp administrator was not exempt from open records laws and must be provided to Officer Tim Putney, according to local news reports. Putney had requested the contract as part of his running legal battle with the self-insured city. He said he was injured in July 2017 while trying to arrest a suspect. Putney f...