Comments on: Progress: 239-1 http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/13/progress-239-1/ A Movement to Lift the Lid on Pennsylvania Government Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:40:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: veblen http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/13/progress-239-1/#comment-1370 veblen Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:08:10 +0000 http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/13/progress-239-1/#comment-1370 While I think the General Assembly should have taken up a new Right-To-Know law last winter, given that they didn't, I don't think the delay until after Christmas is a bad thing. The delay gives us a chance to ask questions about what we're getting. Did this version of the bill eliminate the odious provision which protected records created prior to the bills implementation? If it did, then the delay in the implementation of the bill could be read as a loophole which could give agencies time to destroy records before the law made them public. For that reason, I would like to see a clause in the bill which makes the destruction of records,which would ordinarily not be destroyed, a crime. While I think the General Assembly should have taken up a new Right-To-Know law last winter, given that they didn’t, I don’t think the delay until after Christmas is a bad thing. The delay gives us a chance to ask questions about what we’re getting.

Did this version of the bill eliminate the odious provision which protected records created prior to the bills implementation?

If it did, then the delay in the implementation of the bill could be read as a loophole which could give agencies time to destroy records before the law made them public. For that reason, I would like to see a clause in the bill which makes the destruction of records,which would ordinarily not be destroyed, a crime.

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