Opinion: Court enjoins release of school employees' home addresses
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PNA
Legal
OPINION
In an order dated July 28, 2009, Commonwealth
Court Senior Judge Rochelle S. Friedman granted a
preliminary injunction prohibiting the release of
home addresses of public school employees.
The Court also ordered the Office of Open Records
to notify public school districts of the ruling.
The Court's opinion will apparently be posted at
a later date.
Obviously, this ruling is very significant in
terms of the new Right to Know Law. Although the
Law exempts from disclosure home addresses of law
enforcement, judges, and minors, it does not
exempt home addresses generally.
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