Attorney General Greg Abbott opines, officially, that a person with an amateur radio license is, for purposes of the state's open information laws, a radio station.

That means that exceptions for radio stations (and newspapers) in the law would also be available to holders of federal radio licenses, including amateurs, get the exception. For instance: Government bodies and agencies are allowed to charge fees of people who make frequent open record requests and for requests that take a particularly long time to fulfill. But radio stations and newspapers are exceptions. The state's open information laws don't define radio stations, and the courts haven't, and Abbott says the amateurs do have the Federal Communication Commission permits described in the law. That's that.