Legal Research

After 13 months of effort Pennsylvania finally reformed it's 50 year old Right-to-Know law (SB 1763).  The previous law was widely considered one of the weakest in the nation.  Per the Governor's Press Release --

Under the new law, written requests may be submitted in person, by mail, e-mail, fax or any other electronic means as provided by the agency.Response to requests shall be made within five business days, which is half the time that the current law allows.

An agency may respond to a request for information by notifying the person who is seeking the information that the document is available through publicly accessible electronic means. If the person who is seeking public records does not want to access the record electronically, he or she may submit a written request within 30 days of the agency's notification to have the record converted to paper.

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