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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Sex offender charge puts focus on registration problem
State police in Gettysburg said today that a registered sex offender wasn’t living at the Littlestown address he’d given authorities, so police charged him with failing to meet sexual offender registration requirements. That hits on a problem area with Megan’s … Continue reading
Posted in Online records, Scott Blanchard
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Full Disclosure’s ‘Reading Room’ has a new look
Original documents from state and federal governments, courts, schools and other agencies have a new home on the York Daily Record/Sunday News’ Web site. Instead of residing on the Full Disclosure open records page, they now have their own page. … Continue reading
TMI license renewal effort has tests upcoming
Three Mile Island Unit 1 has two more hurdles to jump before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves the plant to operate for an additional 20 years. York Daily Record/Sunday News staffer Sean Adkins reports that on Thursday, the Advisory … Continue reading
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RTK, Sunshine law training on tap in Harrisburg
The state’s open records office is offering training on the right-to-know law and Sunshine Act this month. Anyone is welcome to attend. Specifics: Sept. 21, two sessions, 10 a.m.-noon and 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, 300 … Continue reading
Posted in Right-to-Know Law, Scott Blanchard
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Newsy day for FOIA
Links to news involving federal Freedom of Information Act: Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press joined news organizations in filing that urges U.S. Supreme Court not to review a lower court’s decision that the FOIA “requires release of images … Continue reading
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Who’s fighting for court access?
Is your right to view court proceedings in jeopardy? I blogged earlier about a Georgia case in which the judge closed the courtroom because it wasn’t big enough for the jury pool and the public. Now, the New York Times … Continue reading
Posted in Judicial records, Scott Blanchard
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Salary update
In my story yesterday about a settlement payment to a former director of the York County School of Technology, I had to use an estimate for his payout. The settlement, which came Wednesday via a Right-to-Know request, showed up on … Continue reading
Open records atty. on Carroll Twp. case: Courts say confidentiality provision can’t trump RTK
Court rulings indicate that government agencies “may not contract away their statutory responsibility to produce public records,” according to Melissa Melewsky, an attorney with the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. I asked Melissa about Carroll Township’s denial of a request for preliminary … Continue reading
Posted in Pennsylvania Right to Know, Scott Blanchard
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A big salary, and a slew of other numbers
If you’re just stopping to check in today, I wanted to call your attention to a couple of public-records based stories on our site today: The York County School of Technology is paying former director James Kraft nine months’ worth … Continue reading
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Death of a family farm chronicled
Court records provide details on how the Brothers family farm, a 400-plus acre tract that was sold at auction last month, went under. It marked the end of a two-generation farm, although the buyer says he will keep farming the … Continue reading
Posted in Judicial records, Scott Blanchard
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