Just one of every five open-records requests submitted to Westmoreland County this year was granted, according to the gatekeeper of those documents. Westmoreland County this year fielded requests from the public for about 500 documents, the most ever received, according to county officials.
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The County must comply with a Right-to-Know request for employee attendance records, the state Office of Open Records has ruled. The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records ruled this week that Bucks County must make public attendance records of county employees who swipe their identification cards to enter the courthouse.
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With the revamping of open records laws in Pennsylvania earlier this year, the Williamsport Sun-Gazette agreed to become part of an effort with The Associated Press and other newspapers statewide to see just how accessible government records are in municipalities and school districts.
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POTTSTOWN — As it turns out, freedom of information is not free. The changes to Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law come at a cost to taxpayers, say officials with the Pottstown School District — $13,217 to be exact -- and that's just the legal fees.
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Many issues that have arisen during the first year under Pennsylvania's revised Right-to-Know Law, which may soon be amended. Should taxpayers have to foot a part of the cost of massive requests? How does the law work when the records are also integral to an ongoing lawsuit? Should the government be able to cancel a request it deems to be a practical impossibility?
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new test of how government agencies respond to records requests shows that a year after Pennsylvania's revamped Right-to-Know Law took effect, it may be transforming attitudes among public officials about the public documents and information under their control. Over two days this fall, reporters and others from 33 Pennsylvania newspapers, a TV station, and a community college journalism class filed 274 requests for public records from police agencies, local government offices and school districts in an audit coordinated by The Associated Press.
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NORRISTOWN — The Times Herald partnered with The Associated Press in its 2009 audit of the Pennsylvania Right-To-Know Law by sending several staffers on undercover assignments to various municipalities, school districts and police departments throughout the coverage area in early October. Read More…

How the audit of compliance with Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law was conducted. Read More…

List of news organizations that participated in the design and execution of the 2009 audit survey of compliance with Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law. Read More…