<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Texas Governor Greg Abbott is refusing to release months’ worth of emails sent to Elon Musk and his companies citing a law that prevents the disclosure of 'highly intimate or embarrassing' information.</li><li>The Texas Newsroom requested emails with Elon Musk dating back to last fall but the governor’s office later refused to follow through on the request, claiming the emails contain private and non-public information.</li><li>The language used by the public information coordinator in the governor’s office is based on a common-law privacy exemption, with SpaceX also objecting to the disclosure of its emails due to potential competitive harm.</li><li>Elon Musk has expanded his presence in Texas recently with Tesla, X, and SpaceX all being headquartered there, and public records requests have revealed interactions between Texas officials and SpaceX representatives.</li></ul>

Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release

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