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Denied: Request for statistics that don't exist

Denied: A request from Dauphin County for a record showing the number of black versus white defendants receiving a certain sentence, because the record does not exist.
From the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition

Denied:
A request from Dauphin County for a record showing the number of black versus white defendants receiving a certain sentence.

The Office of Open Records upheld the county's assertion that such a record did not exist in any format, and that under the open records law the county was not required to create it.

Edrington vs. Dauphin County -- AP 2009-0029