Monthly Archives: September 2010

Right to Know issues back in the crosshairs: What’s the rush?(Deborah L. Musselman, director of government affairs for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, sent the following in an e-mail to PNA members).  Here we go again: bills to amend the 2008 … Continue reading →

Mark Scolforo of The Associated Press reports today that the state’s largest teachers’ union lost its attempt to keep public school employees’ home addresses private. On Friday, Commonwealth Court ruled against the Pennsylvania State Education Association, which sued the state … Continue reading →

Addresses or geographical locators would be part of 911 time-response logs under an amendment to the state’s right-to-know law proposed by state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, according to The Associated Press. Pileggi, who authored the law that took … Continue reading →

This Johnstown Tribune-Democrat editorial ripped the state Commonwealth Court for its decision that state police incident reports aren’t public records. “…this ruling is not about putting investigations at risk. It is about control of information that ought to be available … Continue reading →

The California Borough code office is preparing to evict a number of university students from off-campus apartments whose owners either ignored mandatory building inspections or rent rooms illegally in single-family dwellings, according to the Washington Observer-Reporter. The newspaper has a … Continue reading →