Posted in Open Records News on Jul 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Friday’s Uniontown Herald Standard had more on PA receiving an “F” in public information.
WPSU and The Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice both ran stories that cited open records reform as an item on the Legislature’s to-do list in the new session beginning on Sept. 17.
And today’s Allentown Morning Call editorial says open […]
Posted in Open Records News on Jul 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Today, The Harrisburg Patriot-News’ Brett Lieberman reports that the Center for Public Integrity gave PA a failing grade in financial disclosure.
Yesterday’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review had more on Hempfield School District’s $12,000 probe of staff emails.
And Wednesday’s Philadelphia Inquirer had a story on the budget in which Erik Arnenson, a spokesman […]
Posted in Open Records News on Jul 10th, 2007 No Comments »
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a story about Hempfield Area School District refusing to release the results of a taxpayer-funded investigation into an email leak…
Posted in Open Records News on Jul 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Much of the attention at the Capitol has been focused on the budget lately - but Sunday’s York Daily Record had a great story about reforms in Harrisburg.
Posted in Open Records News on Jun 21st, 2007 No Comments »
The Delaware County Times wrote a great editorial entitled, “Wave of reforms rouses ‘slumbering giant’ “ that discusses the reforms on the table in Harrisburg. Open records reform tops their list.
Late last week, The Williamsport Sun-Gazette editorial gave their readers an update on “attempts to bring Pennsylvania’s onerous Open Records Act into the 21st […]
Posted in Open Records News on Jun 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Today, Rep. Kerry Benninghoff R-Bellefonte, wrote a guest editorial in the Centre Daily Times on open records, saying, “Pennsylvania’s open-records law is broken and it must be fixed. Too much of what government does is shielded by an outdated and backward law that hides more than it reveals.”
And the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s editorial board also weighed […]
Posted in Open Records News on May 21st, 2007 No Comments »
The Chambersburg Public Opinion believes that Joe Paterno’s salary should be public. So does the Williamsport Sun-Gazette…
So considering what’s going on in Happy Valley, does anyone else find it ironic that the commencement speaker for Penn State’s College of Communications was Tom Curley, the CEO of the Associated Press? He told the […]
Posted in Open Records News on May 9th, 2007 No Comments »
The Monessen Valley Independent editorialized about PA’s Open Records law yesterday, saying
When it comes to public access, interpretation should not be a factor. The law should be clear. It should include specific procedures for quick, complete access.
Posted in Open Records News, passopenrecords.org news on Apr 30th, 2007 No Comments »
The Allentown Morning Call editorialized on our blog today.
If the PNA’s new blog is successful, it will show legislators that citizens, and not only the news media, care about open records. The blog is the perfect, modern opportunity for people to contribute to the dialogue. It might even become the driving force behind convincing the […]
Posted in Open Records News on Apr 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
The Philadelphia Bulletin did a story yesterday on the PA House Legislative Reform Commission hearings. Many citizens were on-hand to share their challenges with legislators.
Have any of you come up against roadblocks in your quest to obtain open records?
Thanks to Eric Epstein of RocktheCapital.org for mentioning us on their page. Welcome!