Governmental function
Granted: Delaware River Waterfront Corp. records
December 10, 2009
Granted: A 28-part request to
the Delaware River Waterfront Corp. seeking to
review records related to its relationship and
contracts with another corporation. The requester
received no response to his request, and so it
was deemed denied. Read
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Denied: A request to Pa. State Education Association, not an agency
October 02, 2009
Denied: A request made to the
Pennsylvania State Education Association for
records of payments made for the services of an
impartial arbitrator. Read
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Denied: Records from PEBTF, not a public agency
September 08, 2009
Denied: A request from a state
representative for financial records and reports
from the Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust
Fund.
The PEBTF said it was not a Commonwealth agency and not subject to the Right to Know Law, and the Office of Open Records agreed. Read More...
The PEBTF said it was not a Commonwealth agency and not subject to the Right to Know Law, and the Office of Open Records agreed. Read More...
Denied: Forensic audit report from ESU Foundation
September 03, 2009
Denied: A request to East
Stroudsburg University for the results of a
forensic audit of the East Stroudsburg University
Foundation. Read
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Denied: Request to Chester Co. economic council, as a private entity
August 27, 2009
Denied: A request to the Chester
County Economic Development Council for copies of
bid results and tabulations. The council said it
was a private, non-profit industrial development
corporation – not a public agency – and therefore
not subject to the Right to Know Law.
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Granted: Lackawanna Co. prison pharmacy records from contractor
August 12, 2009
Granted: A request for an
unredacted contract and a three-year financial
accounting for the pharmacy at the Lackawanna
County Prison. Read
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Denied: Bank's records on allegedly illegal charges on school district card
August 04, 2009
Denied: A request for a bank’s
purchasing card records and reports related to
illegal charges, from the Dallastown Area School
District. Read
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Denied: Payroll records from private corporation receiving public funding
June 18, 2009
Denied: A request by the Greater
Pennsylvania Regional Council of Carpenters, a
union, for certified payroll records from Bionol
Clearfield, LLC, a private corporation.
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Granted: Access to records of 'private' industrial development corporation
June 17, 2009
Granted: Records requested from
the Philadelphia Industrial Development
Corporation, which had been denied on the grounds
the PIDC was a private corporate entity not
subject to the Right to Know Law. The Office of
Open Records determined that as a third-party
contractor doing the work of a government agency,
its records were subject to public release under
the Right to Know Law: Read
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Granted/Affirmed: Concession bids submitted to contractor managing public stadium
May 06, 2009
Granted/Affirmed: A request
seeking names and bids submitted to SWB Yankees
LLC for a concessionaire contract at PNC Field.
The records had been denied by the Multi-Purpose
Stadium Authority of Lackawanna County, which
said it did not have possession of the records
and that they were not related to a governmental
function. The OOR’s decision was affirmed by the
Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas.
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Denied: Records of Wall Street West, not a public agency
April 22, 2009
Denied: A request seeking
records from Wall Street West, a private
non-for-profit corporation which receives grant
funding from the Department of Labor and
Industry. Read
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Granted: Volunteer fire company meeting minutes
April 20, 2009
Granted in part and denied in
part: A request for the Frystown (Bethel
Township) volunteer fire company's meeting
minutes from April 1996 through present. The fire
company had denied the request, saying it is not
subject to the Right to Know Law. Read
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Granted: State university foundation's donation information
April 10, 2009
Granted in part and denied in
part: A request to East Stroudsburg
University for donor information and minutes of
meetings held by the East Stroudsburg University
Foundation. The Office of Open Records granted
access to donaton information, with donors names
redacted, as information from a third-party
contractor performing a governmental function.
The minutes of the foundation's meetings were
denied. Read
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Denied/Affirmed: Request for records subject to a court order
April 08, 2009
Denied/Affirmed: A request for
records from the Erie County Office of Children
and Youth for records from a third-party
contractor. The Office of Open Records denied the
request upon being informed the requester and the
records were the subject of a court order
preventing disclosure. Read
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Granted: Access to records of fire company as a local agency
April 03, 2009
Granted in part and denied in
part: A request to Morris Township and
the Morris Township Fire Company for five types
of documents related to the operation of the fire
company. The township had denied the request
based on non-possession, and the fire company had
denied access by saying it was not subject to the
Right to Know Law. Read
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