Privacy
Opinion: Right to Know and the constitutional right to privacy
September 23, 2009 |
Last month, when the Commonwealth Court issued
its first published opinion addressing
Pennsylvania's new Right-to-Know Law, it shone a
bright light on a long-standing issue: the
inherent tension between the public's right to
access government records and a person's interest
in the privacy of information that the government
possesses about him. The Commonwealth Court's
recent opinion, Pennsylvania State Education
Association v. Commonwealth, further muddles the
privacy question and, unless corrected, stands to
cause an array of additional problems.
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