Texas EMS Records Request
The second TPIA filing — demanding licensure, rosters, and disciplinary files for every EMS agency touching the jail.
Texas EMS records request filings are essential for uncovering how emergency medical services operate within detention facilities. This second TPIA request — a follow-up to an initial request submitted December 15, 2025 — targets EMS provider agencies affiliated with Williamson County Jail and seeks licensure, staffing, and disciplinary records maintained by the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, name by name, without exception. For broader investigative context, see the Master Timeline and the jail conditions analysis.
Why a second request matters procedurally:
A first request asks; a second request documents the non-answer. Under Texas law, the statutory clock is unambiguous — production or a written statutory basis for withholding — and the second filing puts that clock in writing again, with the same enumerated agencies and the same categories, so the agency's nineteen-month silence becomes part of the record it refused to produce.
The filing — scope and framing:
Addressed to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, the request is submitted under the Texas Public Information Act — Texas Gov't Code §552.001 et seq. — and expands a December 15, 2025 filing that had not produced the responsive records within statutory timelines. This second TPIA request — explicitly labeled as such in its subject line — includes the same statutory demand and the same enumerated agencies, now with the procedural weight of follow-up.
The period and the agencies covered:
The request demands all EMS Provider Agency licensure, affiliation, and regulatory records for any EMS provider agency that listed any of the following as an employer, contracted service location, practice location, or patient-care setting during January 1, 2024 through July 15, 2025:
- Williamson County Sheriff's Office - Williamson County Jail - HealthSource - VitalCore - Health Strategies - Adelphi Medical Staffing - GreenLife Healthcare Staffing
What makes these four categories the complete medical perimeter:
License records tell you who held authority; rosters tell you who was assigned; complaints and investigations tell you who failed; applications and renewals tell you who staffed the jail year by year. Nothing falls outside those four — and the follow-up exists because silence, in Texas, is production.
Records requested — the enumerated categories:
1. EMS Provider Agency license records — licensure status, levels, service areas, compliance history 2. Personnel rosters filed with DSHS — credentialed individuals by agency, active and inactive 3. Complaints, investigations, or disciplinary actions — including jail assignments, unlicensed practice, or medication administration 4. Provider applications, renewals, and amendments — showing staffing of detention facilities
Format and recourse:
All responsive records in electronic PDF format via email. Professional licenses and disciplinary histories constitute public information under §552.022(a)(17) and may not be redacted. If any information is withheld, each record must be identified with its applicable statutory exemption under §552.301. Pursuant to Texas Government Code §§552.221 and 552.301, the Department must respond within statutory timelines — and is required to confirm receipt with an estimated production timeline.
“This email serves as a SECOND REQUEST under the Texas Public Information Act”
What the Record Shows:
A second request is receipt and refusal in the same envelope — the record exists, it is flagged, DSHS cannot claim ignorance now. Whoever staffed the jail's medical unit during those nineteen months — licensed EMTs, AEMTs, paramedics, contract medics — the paper trail runs through the state that issued every license. The second filing either produces the files, or produces a statutory basis for withholding the same names the county kept anonymous. Both outcomes move the case forward. What it cannot produce is silence.