Recent PNA Legal Hotline Questions

Each week, the PNA legal team shares a question from a member and PNA’s response. Here are the most recent questions and answers.

Recent Questions

• Legal Hotline: Sunshine Act Agenda Details
  Q: The Sunshine Act requires agencies to provide agendas in advance of public meetings, but some local agencies are providing agendas that list generic or all-encompassing subjects that have little meaning. Can they do that?… Read more: Legal Hotline: Sunshine Act Agenda Details
• Legal Hotline: Sunshine Act Right to Record
  Q: A local agency requires citizens to notify the agency 48 hours in advance and get permission if they plan to record public meetings. The policy also threatens criminal sanctions under the Pennsylvania Wiretap Act… Read more: Legal Hotline: Sunshine Act Right to Record
• Judicial Records and RTKL
  Q: We want to review a criminal complaint filed with the county Court of Common Pleas as part of a murder prosecution. Is this record public under the Right-to-Know Law, and should we file an… Read more: Judicial Records and RTKL