Texas attorney challenges alleged corruption in Hearne via popular blog
The small town of Hearne in Robertson County, and more specifically its city government, has attracted the attention of an attorney who's made it his aim to shine a light on what he says is evidence of crime and corruption there.
Ty Clevenger, a graduate of Texas A&M and Stanford Law School who has practiced law in Bryan and most recently in the Dallas area, has been writing about the city of Hearne since 2012 on his blog, lawflog.com.
Comments from readers posts range from supportive to skeptical of the claims he makes about the city -- alleged violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act, refusal to comply with public information requests and altering the utility bills of a citizen who criticized officials being just a few of them.
Clevenger says he writes his blog because the best way to "get the system to work" is to put it under a spotlight and "force it to do what it should be doing in the first place."
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