Eight months later, York County hasn t released all public information sought by York Dispatch
York Dispatch
A legal battle between The York Dispatch and York County for information that the state’s Office of Open Records has said is clearly a public record is now in its eighth month, with no end in sight.
And although the county released most of the requested information last month, there’s still information it refuses to make public specifically, the start and end dates of employment for all employees in the York County Prothonotary’s Office since January 2020.
“My docket covers the entire state of Pennsylvania, and I have right-to-know cases and court-access cases,” said Paula Knudsen Burke, local legal-initiative attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “(This) case is perhaps the most offensive because the information that the newspaper is seeking is so basic.