The Pennsylvania State Senate will take up proposed changes in the state's Right to Know law today. As this article for the York Dispatch says, legislators are trying to figure out the unintended consequences from changing the law to one where disclosure is only allowed in certain instances to one where disclosure is the rule and certain information is then exempted from that disclosure.
I think it is the legislator's responsibility to analyze changes proactively. Hopefully, they will realize that there is no way they will be able to envision all of the negative impacts of an overall positive law and make the changes needed to make the law pro disclosure. And I would remind legislators that they can always amend the law in their next session if there are problems they didn't foresee. Hopefully, Pennsylvania will soon have a disclosure law worthy of its citizens.
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