Pa. court orders state transportation dept. to release speed tracking device...
From RCFP A Pennsylvania appellate court ruled on Tuesday that the state Department of Transportation must release records on speed enforcement devices used by state police agencies in full – without...
View ArticleLancaster County's right-to-know policy may change
From Lancaster Online: Lancaster County commissioners are scheduled to vote Wednesday on an updated right-to-know policy. The proposed policy varies only slightly from the current policy, but there...
View ArticlePennsylvania's commissioners defend unadvertised meetings
From The Time-Tribune: Commissioners Jim Wansacz and Corey O'Brien have held more than a dozen private meetings with elected municipal and school board officials from throughout Lackawanna County...
View ArticleCourt rules Pa. records requests must be considered
From York Daily Record: HARRISBURG, Pa.—Public-records requests filed under Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law need not cite the law or satisfy other technicalities so long as they include the...
View ArticleCourt rules Pa. records requests need not be perfect
From The Beaver County Times: Public-records requests filed under Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law need not cite the law or satisfy other technicalities so long as they include the requester's name...
View ArticlePa. SC: Records for private companies can be public
From Legal Newsline: HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that private companies -- more specifically, those operating for "public benefit" -- can be required...
View ArticlePennsylvania destroying online court records
From TribLIVE: PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania has removed millions of public records from a state court system website, and while a statewide newspaper group says that’s a troubling policy shift, an online...
View ArticleHow Open Records law would have stopped sex abuse sooner at Penn State
Opinion from Poynter: The Freeh report on the Jerry Sandusky Penn State sex abuse scandal makes many recommendations on how the whole rotten mess might be avoided in the future, including transforming...
View ArticleGov. Tom Corbett administration's records denials called public 'abuse'
From PennLive.com:As a gubernatorial candidate, Tom Corbett vowed to provide “an open, transparent, accountable and trustworthy government.” Corbett said he was committed to “100 percent transparency...
View ArticleLuzerne County has yet to comply with open-records request for emails
From The Citizen's Voice:Luzerne County has acknowledged possessing thousands of emails excluded from an open-records release because of an assumption the emails were deleted.The emails were from...
View ArticleState of open data in Philly: Read the open government plan, and more on the...
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NFOIC's State FOIA Friday for December 21, 2012
A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:read more
View ArticlePa. transparency earns temperate grade in Sunshine Week report
From Patch.com: HARRISBURG – If the commonwealth were an elementary school student, we’re not sure if its mother would put this grade on the refrigerator. But in national context, Pennsylvania’s...
View ArticlePa. high court to interpret state's sunshine law
From Law 360: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would review a Commonwealth Court finding interpreting the state's Sunshine Law to conclude that a state agency did not engage in...
View ArticleCounty denies release of controller emails
From Citizens' Voice: Luzerne County can conceal Controller Walter L. Griffith Jr.'s emails because of his arrest on felony electronic-surveillance charges and the lawsuit alleging he violated the...
View ArticleTrib wins appeal to open records in settlement with former county inmate
From Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: The county must obtain and release the settlement between a nonprofit that provides medical services at the Allegheny County Jail and a former inmate because the county...
View ArticlePenn. state police take open-records dispute to court
From TimesOnline.com: HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania State Police are going to court to fight a state lawmaker's open-records request. State Rep. Tim Mahoney, D-32, South Union Township, has been...
View ArticleNFOIC's State FOIA Friday for October 4, 2013
From NFOIC: A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week. While you're at it, be sure to...
View ArticleDaily Local News files Right-to-Know appeal
From Daily Local News: The Daily Local News filed an appeal with the state’s Office of Open Records on Friday regarding three Right-to-Know requests for public documents denied by the Coatesville Area...
View ArticleRequests from inmates overwhelm Pa. open records system
From NewsWorks.org: Proposed revisions to Pennsylvania's open records law appear to require more fine-tuning as lawmakers attempt to address a surging number of requests from prison inmates. State...
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