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: Political Advertising Guidelines
  Q: What are some of the issues we need to consider when reviewing political advertising? A: Financing, required disclosures, timing, rates and defamation issues arise in the context of  political advertising, and news media organizations… Read more: Legal Hotline: Political Advertising Guidelines
• Legal Hotline: RTKL 30 Day Extension
  Q: Many local agencies routinely take a 30-calendar-day extension to respond to Right-to-Know Law (RTKL) requests, usually citing the need for legal review or due to staffing limitations, even for simple, obviously public records like… Read more: Legal Hotline: RTKL 30 Day Extension
• Legal Hotline: RTKL 911 Time Response Logs
  Q: I’d like to review emergency time response logs from our county dispatch center related to fire, police and EMS. When I asked for access, the dispatch chief said 911 and other emergency response records… Read more: Legal Hotline: RTKL 911 Time Response Logs