{"note": "Texas Public Information Act requests, Election Code requests and preservation letters. The list includes what has NOT been asked for yet: a public archive should say what it is missing and who holds it, not only what it managed to get. Draft text stays private until a request is sent; requests touching a live case are not listed.", "requests": [{"id": "03", "to": "Montgomery County Elections", "subject": "Campaign finance reports: Gray, Hayden, Dunn", "drafted": "2026-04-20", "sent": "", "status": "SUPERSEDED — reports obtained from elections.mctx.org", "response": "", "has_draft": true, "public": true, "why": "", "priority": "high", "law": "pia", "letter": ""}, {"id": "04", "to": "Montgomery County Constable Pct 4 and County Auditor", "subject": "Towing contracts and vendor payments", "drafted": "2026-04-20", "sent": "", "status": "draft — not sent", "response": "", "has_draft": true, "public": true, "why": "", "priority": "high", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/04.txt"}, {"id": "06", "to": "Montgomery County District Clerk", "subject": "OCA appointment and fee reports, monthly, Sept 2016 through Sept 2024", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DRAFT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Gov't Code ch.36 reporting started 2016-09-01 and the county publishes ONLY the current month online ('Combined fee reports for website.pdf' = June 2026). The 'Click here for archives' link on the District Clerk page points at the live video streaming page. The parser is built and validated (parse_oca_pdf.py, exact dollar agreement with the county's own xlsx on 3 judges). This is the only route to the pre-FY2025 record, which includes CCL#3 filed under 'Atkinson, Amy' — Judge Tucker's name until ~2018.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/06.txt"}, {"id": "07", "to": "Montgomery County District Clerk / County Clerk", "subject": "284th District Court appointment list and standing order on appointment fees", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DRAFT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "The saved copy at data/pulls/2026-09-07/284th-appointment-list.html is a 404 page — the fetch failed and was not noticed. Every per-court page under the County Clerk's appointment-fee section is empty. Judge Kristin Bays' court.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/07.txt"}, {"id": "08", "to": "Montgomery County Purchasing", "subject": "Bid tabulation sheet and all bid responses, Project #21-37 (towing, various departments)", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DRAFT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Awarded 2025-03-25 to Milstead Automotive, LTD as 'the only remaining bidder'. Amy Milstead gave Commissioner Gray $2,500 twenty-five days earlier. Against the county base rate (7 of 228 dated awards have any matched gift within 120 days, 3 within 30) that pairing is unusual. Need: who else bid, who withdrew and why, and the specs.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/08.txt"}, {"id": "09", "to": "Montgomery County Precinct 4 / County Engineer / Purchasing", "subject": "Robinson Road Project — full project file, appraisals, and right-of-way acquisitions", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DRAFT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "29 condemnation / parcel-acquisition items between 2026-04-23 and 2026-06-11 — the most intense burst in the whole 24-year minutes record, in Gray's precinct, in an election year. No construction award has appeared yet. Want appraisals vs comparable sales, and the bid file the moment it is let.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/09.txt"}, {"id": "11", "to": "Montgomery County Elections", "subject": "County campaign finance reports filed BEFORE 2023-09-01", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DRAFT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "HB 2626 only forces online posting for reports filed on or after 2023-09-01, so nothing earlier is on elections.mctx.org. Request 03 covered Gray/Hayden/Dunn for the posted window only. Wanted for the county-court judges (Tucker, Laird, Valdez, Riley) whose money is structurally invisible in TEC — TEC holds ZERO Montgomery County JCOH filers.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/11.txt"}, {"id": "12", "to": "Texas Secretary of State / Comptroller (public search, no PIA needed)", "subject": "Entity records: Waterstone on Lake Conroe Inc; Waterstone Development Group LLC; Waterstone Opportunity Fund I; Von Schmidt Land & Cattle LLC", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "NO REQUEST NEEDED — free public search", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Officers and registered agents for all four, to settle whether the City of Montgomery Waterstone and the Precinct 4 PID Waterstone are the same people. Blocks §6 of the land/contracts memo.", "priority": "medium", "law": "none", "letter": ""}, {"id": "13", "to": "Montgomery County Auditor (Public Information Act request)", "subject": "All payments to Rebel Contractors, Inc., FY2019 through FY2026", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DO", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Rebel has won eight county contracts since 2019, including 23-34 On-Call Drainage for PRECINCT 4, and its President Alex Wilson has given Commissioner Gray $34,250 with his household since March 2025. The Notice of Awards page carries no dollar figures, so there is currently no way to say what any of it is worth — the single biggest gap in research/subject-wilson-rebel-2026-09-19.md. Ask for the check register or vendor payment history by fiscal year.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/13.txt"}, {"id": "14", "to": "Montgomery County Purchasing (Public Information Act request)", "subject": "Solicitation file for Project 23-34, On-Call Drainage Improvement, Precinct 4", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DO", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Bid tabulation, all bidders, scoring and the recommendation memo for the contract Rebel Contractors holds as prime vendor in Gray's own precinct, awarded 2023-10-24 and renewed on Gray's motion 2025-10-14. Establishes whether the on-call contract was competitively let and who else bid.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/14.txt"}, {"id": "15", "to": "Montgomery County Purchasing (Public Information Act request)", "subject": "Solicitation files for 21-37 Towing Services and 25-24 Additional Towing Services", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DO", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Both awards went to Milstead Automotive, whose president held a seat on the county's Towing Advisory Board until it was disbanded in June 2023. Ask for bid tabulation, every bidder, scoring and the recommendation memo. Establishes whether county towing was competitively let and who else bid. See research/boards-and-contracts-2026-09-20.md.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/15.txt"}, {"id": "16", "to": "Montgomery County Auditor (Public Information Act request)", "subject": "All payments to Milstead Automotive, LTD., FY2021 through FY2026", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DO", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "The Notice of Awards page carries no dollar figures, so the towing contracts have no known value. Same gap as the Rebel Contractors request (#13).", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/16.txt"}, {"id": "17", "to": "Montgomery County Clerk / County Judge's office (Public Information Act request)", "subject": "Towing — the 21-37 mid-term cancellation of Allpoints, the re-award to Milstead, and the Towing Advisory Board records", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DO", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Two things, both now live. (1) On 2025-03-25 the court acknowledged the IMMEDIATE CANCELLATION of Project 21-37 Towing Services with Allpoints Towing, LLC and awarded 21-37 to Milstead Automotive as 'the only remaining bidder'. Allpoints had exercised the third of three renewal options four months earlier (2024-11-19), and Milstead's president gave Commissioner Gray $2,500 twenty-five days before the cancellation. Why the contract was cancelled, who initiated it, and what 'only remaining bidder' means four years into a solicitation are all unanswered. (2) The Towing Advisory Board was created 2021-04-13, seated 2021-04-27 with nine towing-company owners and officers, and disbanded 2023-06-13; what it recommended in between is not in the minutes. Not history: 25-24 was renewed 2026-05-07, the first of three renewal options.", "priority": "medium", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/17.txt"}, {"id": "18", "to": "Montgomery County District Clerk, County Clerk, Treasurer and Auditor (Public Information Act request)", "subject": "Court registry funds — balances, interest earned, the county's statutory 10% share, and the depository contract", "drafted": "2026-09-21", "sent": "", "status": "DRAFTED", "response": "", "has_draft": true, "public": true, "why": "Money tendered into a county court's registry is deposited with the county depository under Local Gov't Code ch. 117 and earns interest, and the statute splits that interest: 10% to the county general fund for administrative expenses, 90% back to the account. None of those figures appear in anything pulled so far — not the balances, not the interest, not the county's share, and not how the depository holding the money was selected. Asks for all four, plus registry funds held over three years and anything escheated as unclaimed property.", "priority": "high", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/18.txt"}, {"id": "19", "to": "Texas Secretary of State, Elections Division (Election Code 18.066 request)", "subject": "Montgomery County voter registration list — all precincts, active + suspense + cancelled, with voting history", "drafted": "2026-09-21", "sent": "", "status": "DRAFTED", "response": "", "has_draft": true, "public": true, "why": "The county declined. Sec. 18.066 makes the Secretary of State's duty mandatory — furnish to any person on request within 15 days — so the state route does not depend on county cooperation. Needs a notarised affidavit of non-commercial use and a $75 deposit. Returns VUID, former last name, DOB, precinct and full address: the identity key and discriminator this project has been working without. Restricted handling: warehouse/restricted only, never the public mart.", "priority": "high", "law": "election_code", "letter": "/foi/19.txt"}, {"id": "20", "to": "Montgomery County Elections Administrator / County Clerk", "subject": "Campaign finance reports for the County Courts at Law and Probate Court judges — Claudia Laird, Amy Tucker, Jack Riley, Scharlene Valdez, Kenna Seiler, Kelly Norsworthy — all cycles held", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "NOT YET SENT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "County and probate judicial candidates file with the COUNTY, not the Texas Ethics Commission, so no TEC pull of any width reaches them. These six approve the largest volumes of paid appointments in the county (Laird 4,974 appointments / $731,390; Tucker 1,550 / $705,697; Riley 955 / $401,441; Valdez 317 / $157,863) and have no campaign-finance file anywhere in this archive.", "priority": "highest", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/20.txt"}, {"id": "21", "to": "Montgomery County Justice Courts, Precincts 1–4", "subject": "Case index for all eviction and small-claims filings, 2021 to present — case number, style, filing date, judgment, and appeal status", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "NOT YET SENT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "The archive holds zero Justice of the Peace cases. Evictions and small claims are where most residents actually meet this courthouse, and none of it is here.", "priority": "highest", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/21.txt"}, {"id": "22", "to": "Montgomery County Clerk", "subject": "Criminal case index for the County Courts at Law, 2021 to present — case number, charge, filing date, disposition, and the judge of record", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "NOT YET SENT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "The archive holds zero criminal cases. County Court at Law No. 1 shows five cases in total, none after 2021, and County Court at Law No. 5 does not appear at all.", "priority": "highest", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/22.txt"}, {"id": "23", "to": "Montgomery County Courts at Law and Probate Court (Rule 12 / Public Information Act request)", "subject": "Any written procedure governing the appointment rotation or wheel — how counsel, guardians ad litem and attorneys ad litem are selected, and any standing order setting fees", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "NOT YET SENT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Amy Tucker and Jack Riley share 24 of the roughly 30 attorneys either one appoints — 80% overlap across $1,062,968 in approved fees. A formal rotation list would explain it entirely. No written procedure has been produced.", "priority": "high", "law": "rule12", "letter": "/foi/23.txt"}, {"id": "24", "to": "Montgomery County Clerk / Courts at Law", "subject": "Written procedure for jury demands and trial settings in the County Courts at Law, and any local rule on the timing of a jury request", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "NOT YET SENT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Rule 216 sets a thirty-day floor for a jury demand. Whether a court can set a trial inside that window, and what written rule governs it, is not on file anywhere in this archive.", "priority": "high", "law": "rule12", "letter": "/foi/24.txt"}, {"id": "25", "to": "Montgomery County Clerk / District Clerk", "subject": "Mail-return and service-of-notice records: notices returned undelivered, 2023 to present, with the address used and the address on file for the same party", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "NOT YET SENT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "Testable only with the records. If notices are going to addresses that differ from the sworn address already in a court's own file, that is a measurable defect rather than an anecdote, and it cannot be measured from outside.", "priority": "high", "law": "pia", "letter": "/foi/25.txt"}, {"id": "26", "to": "Texas Ethics Commission", "subject": "Confirmation of which campaign-finance reports the Montgomery County judicial filers filed for calendar year 2022, and whether those reports are included in the TEC bulk CSV release", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "NOT YET SENT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "The bulk file carries exactly one contribution row to a Montgomery judge for all of 2022, against 123 in 2021 and 168 in 2023. Either the judges did not raise, or the bulk release is missing the reports. The filer list is not the cause; that was tested and ruled out.", "priority": "medium", "law": "plain", "letter": "/foi/26.txt"}, {"id": "27", "to": "Montgomery County District Clerk (court records, Rule 12 / open courts — not a PIA)", "subject": "Orders of Assignment, and any recusal or referral orders, in 26-04-06049 (Kenningham v. Keough), 24-10-16036 (Keough v. Kenningham et al), 24-10-15213 (Hajicek v. Keough et al, official capacity) and 23-12-17966 (Christ v. Bagley et al)", "drafted": "", "sent": "", "status": "TO DRAFT", "response": "", "has_draft": false, "public": true, "why": "All four dockets are in the 457th and all four show an 'Order of Assignment' shortly after filing or transfer. The Odyssey index records every disposition under Santini as the court's judicial officer, so it cannot show whether he recused and who was assigned. Whether the County Judge — who signs the 457th's budget — litigated in front of Santini, or in front of a visiting judge Santini's court arranged, is the fact the recusal record needs.", "priority": "high", "law": "plain", "letter": "/foi/27.txt"}], "counts": {"total": 23, "sent": 0, "outstanding": 23, "letters": 21}, "by_priority": {"highest": 3, "high": 8, "medium": 12}}