CENTRE DAILY TIMES: Lawyers for Penn State and Pennsylvania’s three other “state-related” universities said Monday they should not be fully covered by the state Right-to-Know Law, as lawmakers revisited a previously settled question reignited by the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case…
Chairman Lloyd Smucker, R-Lancaster, said Sandusky’s 2011 arrest and subsequent conviction has been a “game changer” in several areas of state law and may result in changes regarding open records as well…
Together they receive hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding annually. The 2008 revisions to the Right-to-Know Law largely excluded the schools but imposed a new requirement that they disclose certain financial information annually, including some of their largest salaries… (more)