The office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this summer sought data on how many people had changed the gender information on their driver's license.
PUBLISHED 5:51 PM CST Dec. 14, 2022AUSTIN, Texas — The office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this summer sought data on how many people had changed the gender information on their driver's license, according to a newspaper report published Wednesday that civil rights attorneys described as worrying. that public records obtained by the newspaper do not indicate why Paxton's office made the request to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
DPS found over 16,000 gender changes over the past two years, but officials said a manual search would have been required to determine the reason for each one. According to records obtained by the Post, DPS staff members repeatedly referred to the request as coming from the attorney general’s office as they discussed attempting to narrow the data to include only licenses that had been altered to reflect a court-ordered change in someone’s gender.
Brian Klosterboer, an attorney at the ACLU of Texas, said this request of information was “highly unusual" and a violation of privacy.
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