Cara Mendelsohn joins push to release Council travel records. Here’s a little city hall reporter sausage making: When you want a specific data set—maybe 5,000 emails about City Hall, for instance, or the travel records of the City Council—you file an open records request in the city’s open records portal. However, several people/entities, including the Dallas Morning News, have been requesting travel records for councilmembers and Mayor Eric Johnson. It’s also fighting requests for travel records for Johnson’s trip to Montreal and an international trip by Councilmember Jesse Moreno. “Making these records available as a routine disclosure to the public will strengthen public trust, promote accountability, and reaffirm the City’s commitment to open government.”