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911 logs disagreement points out issues in RTK law
July 12, 2009 |
The York Daily Record/Sunday News and York County
are headed to court over the newspaper's request
for what the state deems a public record: 911
time-response logs. Read
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Court to determine public access to 911 logs
July 12, 2009 |
York County's refusal to release addresses or
locations along with dispatch and arrival times
of emergency responders is not an attempt to stop
the York Daily Record/Sunday News from reviewing
that data, county solicitor Michael Flannelly
said Friday.
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York County to appeal open records ruling on 911 logs
June 10, 2009 |
York County solicitor Mike Flannelly said
Wednesday that the county commissioners will
appeal a decision from the state Office of Open
Records regarding what information the county
must provide about 911 dispatches. Read
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State: York County must give addresses in 911 logs
May 27, 2009 |
The state Office of Open Records ruled recently
that publicly released time response logs from
York County's 911 Center must include where
police or fire units were headed when they were
dispatched. The office made the ruling Friday in
response to an appeal by the York Daily
Record/Sunday News. More than two months ago, the
Daily Record/Sunday News asked the county for the
logs with addresses. Read
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County's public 911 response logs not useful
April 26, 2009 |
If state residents want to know if their local
fire companies, police departments and EMS
agencies are responding promptly to emergencies,
Pennsylvania's new Right-to-Know law gives them
the right. Residents can request time response
logs from their county 911 center, which would
help them determine if agencies arrived in a
timely fashion, officials say. But that's not the
case in York County, because of how the county
defines a time response log. Read
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