EMS Records Request – Texas Public Information Filing
The DSHS EMS/Trauma filing demanding every license, roster, and disciplinary file tied to the jail's medical operation.
EMS records request — a formal submission under the Texas Public Information Act seeking EMS provider agency records connected to Williamson County Jail. The filing focuses on licensure, personnel assignments, regulatory compliance, and disciplinary actions involving agencies operating within or affiliated with the jail system. It is preserved as a public record, presented in its original form to maintain evidentiary integrity.
Why DSHS matters more than the jail:
The jail can say whoever it wants; the state database cannot lie. DSHS licenses every EMS provider and every agency in Texas, and its records will show exactly which entity — county, contractor, or staffing firm — held each license at the time each service was delivered inside the jail. That is why this filing is aimed at the license layer, not the staffing layer.
The official submission — scope and timeframe:
The filing is addressed to the Public Information Coordinator, Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) — EMS/Trauma Systems – Open Records, dated November 13, 2025. Under the Texas Public Information Act — Texas Government Code §552.001 et seq. — the request demands EMS Provider Agency licensure, affiliation, and regulatory records for any agency connected to Williamson County Jail between January 1, 2024 and July 15, 2025.
The four demand categories — in full:
What makes this filing airtight as a demand:
Every record class DSHS is asked to produce is a record DSHS already maintains as a matter of law — licenses are issued, renewed, and disciplined in writing. There is no unknown file to hunt down; the only latency is whether the agency chooses the law's timeline or its own. The named entities are the complete perimeter — county, healthcare contractors, medical staffing, EMS providers — and the categories are non-negotiable.
Agencies to search — every named entity:
The filing names: Williamson County Sheriff's Office, HealthSource, VitalCore, Health Strategies, Adelphi Medical Staffing, GreenLife Healthcare, Staffing, and any EMS contractors. The net is not decorative — every entity that could plausibly have staffed the jail's medical unit during the period is named, so DSHS cannot claim ignorance of who to search.
“I request EMS Provider Agency licensure, affiliation, and regulatory records”
Submission format and the withholding rule:
The filing demands email PDF records, and states plainly: if records are withheld, the agency must identify the statutory basis under Texas law. No ambiguity. No unlocated file. No unexplained silence — a withholding agency must say what, where, why, and by whom, in writing, within the timeline the statute authorizes, or the record is deemed released by operation of law.
What the Record Shows:
DSHS holds the statewide EMS licensure database — the one file that cannot be assembled from any other source. Whatever it produces, the jail's medical staffing history between January 2024 and July 2025 will finally be on paper: named providers, named levels, named agencies, named dates — and disciplinary actions for anyone who failed to meet the standard they were hired to represent. The filing is dated, addressed, and preserved. The next answer comes from Austin.