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Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition

'Stop Teacher Strikes' continues fight to organize non-union state employees

The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) is requesting home addresses of public school employees be kept private under Right-to-Know law, but Stop Teacher Strikes President Simon Campbell and the state Office of Open Records argue there is no such protection. Read More…

Pa. Supreme Court reinstates injunction barring release of school employees’ addresses

On November 1, 2010, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstated the preliminary injunction prohibiting the release of public school employees home addresses while the appeal is pending. What does that mean to you? At some point, the Pa. Supreme Court will enter a final order on the appeal. It remains to be seen if the court will address only the procedural issue raised by the Commonwealth Court or address the merits of the case as well. Read More…

Opinion: Public employee addresses to remain private until court determines jurisdictional issue

One of the most fiercely contested issues arising after the 2008 revision of Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law is whether home addresses of public employees are public records. Read More…

Opinion: A teacher's home address should not fall under Right to Know law

Is an individual's home address a public record, and subject to the state's Right to Know Law, if that person is a public employee? That is the key question in a debate over personal privacy versus the public's right to know, in an age dominated by the Internet. Read More…

Pa. teachers' union loses address privacy case

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania appeals court on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by the state's largest teachers' union that sought to prevent public disclosure of public school employees' home addresses. Commonwealth Court ruled against the Pennsylvania State Education Association, which sued the state Office of Open Records to keep it from ordering the release of the addresses under the state's Right-to-Know Law. Read More…