Comments on: Filleted http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/10/19/filleted/ A Movement to Lift the Lid on Pennsylvania Government Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:27:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: veblen http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/10/19/filleted/#comment-737 veblen Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:49:16 +0000 http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/10/19/filleted/#comment-737 I don't know how it happened, but the post on my blog which was supposed to trackback to here is this one, <a href="http://thorsteinveblen.blogspot.com/2007/10/penn-state-artificial-turf-grass.html" rel="nofollow">Penn State's Artificial Turf Grass Program</a> Sorry about that. I don’t know how it happened, but the post on my blog which was supposed to trackback to here is this one,
Penn State’s Artificial Turf Grass Program
Sorry about that.

]]> By: Left of Centre http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/10/19/filleted/#comment-736 Left of Centre Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:21:26 +0000 http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/10/19/filleted/#comment-736 <strong>Old Main Foulkes the Students One Last Time...</strong> ... Old Main Foulkes the Students One Last Time…

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]]> By: Stephanie Frank Singer http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/10/19/filleted/#comment-731 Stephanie Frank Singer Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:34:42 +0000 http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/10/19/filleted/#comment-731 Given my experience trying to get timely, detailed electronic information about election results from various Pennsylvania counties, I am extremely concerned about any bill that allows agencies to refuse a request by deeming it "burdensome". While most county Boards of Election are quite helpful and prompt, there is at least one large county with a Board of Elections that has used every excuse to delay answering my requests. In general, any request for a electronic version of a database (such as the voter registry or the archive of election results) could be called "burdensome" if it requires the agency to develop a new procedure for downloading that database to a CD for distribution. So I oppose the law as written. (By the way, I had some success with the existing Right-to-Know Law, which I used in 2005 to induce the Department of State to lower its voter file prices to $20 from over $1,000.) Given my experience trying to get timely, detailed electronic information about election results from various Pennsylvania counties, I am extremely concerned about any bill that allows agencies to refuse a request by deeming it “burdensome”. While most county Boards of Election are quite helpful and prompt, there is at least one large county with a Board of Elections that has used every excuse to delay answering my requests.

In general, any request for a electronic version of a database (such as the voter registry or the archive of election results) could be called “burdensome” if it requires the agency to develop a new procedure for downloading that database to a CD for distribution.

So I oppose the law as written.

(By the way, I had some success with the existing Right-to-Know Law, which I used in 2005 to induce the Department of State to lower its voter file prices to $20 from over $1,000.)

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