Elon Musk, speaking in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, said that public information requests should become obsolete. He suggested that all public information should be automatically accessible to the public unless it poses a genuine national security threat.

"There should be no need for FOIA requests. All government data should be default public for maximum tranparency," said Musk. "I think that the strong bias with respect to government information should be to make it available to the public. Unless there's a genuine risk to the country, all information in the government should be made public."

In Texas, the Public Information Act (PIA) governs public access to government records. According to the Office of the Attorney General of Texas, "PIA generally requires a governmental body to release information in response to a request for information. However, if a governmental body determines the information is excepted from disclosure under the PIA, then both the request and the information at issue must be reviewed by the Open Records Division" of the Office of the Attorney General.

An advocate for reforming Texas's public information process expressed concerns about current practices. They said that exceptions and procedural challenges have "rendered the law useless," complicating public access to requested information.

Each legislative session sees bills filed and passed aimed at improving this process for Texans.

According to an October 2023 op-ed in Lone Star Standard by Brad Swail, "public information belongs to us, the public. So why do we have to ask permission to see it, trust that everything is delivered, and why do we have to pay for it?"

Swail concluded similarly to Musk that "a searchable database of all public information eligible documents, that is open to the public and free, may be the end goal we should pursue."