The Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate is weighing several changes to the state's five-year-old right-to-know law, according to a report from The Harrisburg Patriot-News.
The proposed changes include:
- making state-affiliated universities like Penn State subject to the law in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal;
- controlling the number of right-to-know requests from prisoners (although carving out a class of requestors could create bad precedent);
- making the Office of Open Records an independent agency;
- allowing local governments to deny allegedly "unduly burdensome" requests.
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