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This year's Freedom of Information Award included recognition of the newspaper's fight for access to the Department of Health and Human Services’ prescription monitoring database for its “Legacy of Pain” investigation into the growing opioid crisis across the state.
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Judge throws out lawsuit from Justice of the Peace who denied same-sex weddings and last updated 2021-07-02 00:05:20-04 A lawsuit filed by McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley, who refused to marry same-sex couples was thrown out this week by Judge Jan Soifer of Austinâs 459th State District Court in Travis County. In December of 2019 the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a warning to Judge Hensley for her actions. Which she then filed a lawsuit against, claiming it violated her beliefs and citing the religious freedom restoration act. The findings in the warning...