News from around Pennsylvania on open records requests and denials:
- The Towanda Daily Review that the state open records office upheld Bradford County's denial of the newspaper's request to see "inappropriate material" found on a common pleas court judge's computer, and the newspaper will not pursue the request further.
- The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette looks back at the first year of Pennsylvania's new right-to-know law and writes that a national organization says the state's law has gone from the worst in the country to the top third, but the first year of a new commitment to openness has not been trouble-free.
- The (Sharon) Herald reports on its ongoing fight with the Sharon Sanitary Authority to see details of almost $1 million in delinquent sewer accounts. The authority's lawyer says only those directly involved (consumer, consumer's attorney, debt collector, for example) can see those records. The newspaper's lawyer says that's an incorrect interpretation of state and federal law.
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