Pennsylvania newspapers are condemning the Legislature's efforts to come up with an open records law. Pennsylvania has had the worst open records law in the country for years and the effort to remedy the problem has turned into another monumental screw-up by the most expensive, least effective state legislature in the country.
Regardless of their political leanings, liberal, moderate or conservative, Pennsylvania newspapers have criticized the Legislature on their editorial pages in recent days. Here's a sampling:
The Delaware County Daily Times says, "Pa. needs sunshine, not a smoke screen"
The Mercury in Pottstown says, "Open-records reform on road to becoming latest legislative failure"
The Morning Call in Allentown says, "House committee does skulduggery in gutting open-records proposal"
The Patriot-News in Harrisburg says, "House draft denies public access permitted under the current law"
The Reading Eagle says, "Open-record revision weakened by rewrite"
The Intelligencer in Doylestown, calls the Legislature's actions "A Step Backward"
To find more information about Pennsylvania's open records laws, go to http://www.passopenrecords.org
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