Thread by @byjayroot

The state of Texas gave us a censored version of its $295 million contract for contact tracing. The contractor got to decide what to black out. Since we also got the unredacted version we know what they didn’t want you to see #COVID19 #transparency houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

This is what the recipient of a $295m TX contract allowed the state to reveal publicly about how it proposed to ramp up the hiring of contact tracers (The state says it let the contractor, @MTX_Inc, choose what to reveal and what to censor) #COVID19

And this is what the recipient of a $295m #Texas contract for contact tracing — @MTX_Inc — did not want you to see. Shows how they plan to ramp up hiring of contact tracers

This is a heavily redacted page of the $295m state contact tracing deal, provided to the @HoustonChron after the contractor was allowed, unilaterally, to black out huge portions

Here’s an unredacted version of the page from $295m TX contract shown in previous tweet. The contractor was allowed to black out descriptions of its contact tracing process, from identifying a PUI (Person Under Investigation) to who decides when someone should self isolate