Dept. of Environmental Protection
DEP challenges records ruling
April 10, 2009 |
The state's new Office of Open Records has been
open four months and already it has received 278
requests for help in resolving disputes over what
constitutes a government record. So far, the
office has issued decisions in 75 of those
disputes involving such entities as fire
companies, school districts, parking authorities
and two dozen state agencies. Three of those
decisions were appealed to county courts. One
recent decision could become one of the first
court tests of the revised Right to Know Law and
could be of interest to anyone who doesn't want
to travel far to review government records.
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Pa.'s public-records czar faults Rendell on openness
April 10, 2009 |
HARRISBURG — The Rendell administration appears
to be going out of its way to block public access
to government documents. At least that is the
impression left on the state's new open-records
czar. Read
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Opinion: If requested, state should mail documents
April 10, 2009 |
The intent of Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law is
clear: Public information should be available to
the public in a timely fashion. But already we
have a legal challenge on what exactly
"available" means. Read
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Pennsylvania has first test over access to records
April 08, 2009 |
In one of the first tests of a new Pennsylvania
law intended to make state records more readily
available to the public, the State Department of
Environmental Protection was ordered on Tuesday
to copy and mail out documents to people who
request them, rather than force people to come to
its offices in Harrisburg. Read
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