The Galveston County Daily News
Groups fights bill that protects biolab secrets
By Laura Elder
The Daily News
"Published May 8, 2009
Open government advocates are lining up to fight a bill they say would cripple the public’s right to information about deadly germs like those studied at the Galveston National Laboratory.
Critics say Senate Bill 2556 would allow laboratory operators to keep confidential all information pertaining to so-called select agents, including information about accidental infections and other releases of potentially lethal organisms."