Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 418.179 - Confidentiality of Certain Encryption Codes and Security Keys for Communications System(a) Information is confidential if the information:(1) is collected, assembled, or maintained by or for a governmental entity for the purpose of preventing, detecting, or investigating an act of terrorism or related criminal activity; and(2) relates to the details of the encryption codes or security keys for a public communications system.(b) This section does not prohibit a governmental entity from making available, at cost, to bona fide local news media, for the purpose of monitoring emergency communications of public interest, the communications terminals used in the entity's trunked communications system that have encryption codes installed.Tex. Gov't. Code § 418.179
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1312, Sec. 3, eff. 6/21/2003.