Huffman: We’re not trying to hide anything

UTMB’s Stanley Lemon is quoted in this article about a bill supported by UTMB to bring Texas in compliance with federal open records law. “Our best legal counsel tell us that this bill will not limit our ability to let you and other members of the public know which select agents are being studied within the Galveston National Laboratory, the name of the responsible principal investigator or the research being undertaken,” Lemon said in an e-mail to (community) board members. The editor of the Galveston paper, Heber Taylor, wrote a column on May 10 and another one today opposing the pending state legislation as did associate editor Michael Smith.