Personnel records
Granted: Principal interview ratings from non-compliant school district
October 11, 2009
Granted: A request to the
Uniontown School District for a copying of
principal interview ratings from her interview
for a school principal position. Read
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Granted: Records where borough failed to prove they could be withheld
August 24, 2009
Granted in part and denied in
part: A request for a number of records
related to the requester’s employment with the
borough of Jim Thorpe, including police reports,
records of disciplinary actions and investigation
records. Read
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Granted: Individual correspondence involving school district business
July 24, 2009
Granted in part and denied in
part: A request for communications and
other records relating to lawsuits by a former
Penn-Delco School District solicitor against the
former business manager and a former board
president. Read
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Denied: Ex-Corrections employee's own personnel records
June 25, 2009
Granted in part and denied in
part: A former Department of Corrections
employee's request for portions of his personnel
record and documents relating to his application
for unemployment. Read
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Denied: State police supervisor notations, certain radar gun memos
June 22, 2009
Denied: A request to the
Pennsylvania State Police for certain memos on
inaccurate radar guns, and supervisor's notations
on a specific officer. The PSP stated that the
radar gun reports requested did not exist, and
that the supervisor's notations amounted to
personnel records, which are exempt from
disclosure under the Right to Know Law.
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Denied: Job applicant scores, evaluations, except for successful candidates
June 19, 2009
Granted in part and denied in
part: A request by a Department of
Public Works employee to review the agency's
written job interview summaries and scoring
matrices concerning management job selections.
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Denied: Written public criticisms of cheerleading adviser
June 08, 2009
Denied: A request to the
Lakeview School District for letters and a
petition regarding the requester's performance as
cheerleading adviser. Read
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Granted: Unredacted legal records or itemized reasons for redactions
May 18, 2009
Granted: A request for vouchers,
financial disclosure statements and a copy of a
lawyer-client agreement from Dickinson Township,
where the township had provided copies of
redacted documents but not itemized legal reasons
for each redaction. Read
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Denied: Coach improvement plan from Northern York School District.
April 22, 2009
Denied: A request seeking the
"prescription for improvements" for a coach who
had been re-hired by the Northern York School
District. The district had denied the request on
the basis that it sought personnel records
including written criticism or performance
reviews that are protected from disclosure.
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Denied: Personnel file, although school district failed to comply
April 17, 2009
Denied: A request to the
Wilkes-Barre Area School District for a former
employee's personnel file. The district failed to
respond to the initial request and to subsequent
inquiries from the Office of Open Records.
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Denied: Employee's request for own personnel records
March 02, 2009
Denied: A public employee's
request for his own personnel records.
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