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Pennsylvania: Public Records Requests Under Right-to-Know Law Should Not be Derailed by Technicalities

Loaded on May 15, 2013

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Disclosure of Records. Location: Pennsylvania.

In June 2012, a divided Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a decision of the Office of Open Records that a request for public records is governed by the Commonwealth’s Right-to-Know Law (RTKL), 65 P.S. §§67.101-67.3104, even if it does not cite to the RTKL and even if it is not …

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