Pennsylvania FOIA logs (Human Resources and Management)

Dear Ms. Lipton:

On March 17, 2017, the open-records officer of the Governor's Office of Administration (OA) received your written requests for information. OA is responding to your requests under the Pennsylvania Right-To-Know Law, 65 P.S. §§ 67.101, et seq. (RTKL). Under the RTKL, a written response to your requests are due on or before March 24, 2017.

This is an interim response, not a final response, to your requests. Under the provisions of 65 P.S. § 67.902(b)(2), you are hereby notified that your requests are being reviewed for the reason(s) listed below and OA will require up to an additional 30 days, i.e., until April 24, 2017, in which to respond to your requests.

· Compliance with your request may require the redaction of certain information that is not subject to access under RTKL.

· Your request is under legal review to determine whether a requested record is a "public record" for purposes of the RTKL.

· The extent or nature of the request precludes a response within the required time period.

Finally, the estimated or actual total for any fees that will be owed when the record becomes available will be included in our subsequent response. Prepayment is required before providing access when the estimated cost to fulfill each request exceeds $100.00. 65 P.S. § 67.1307(h). If you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact me.

Sincerely,

Wha Lee Strohecker
Agency Open Records Officer
Governor's Office of Administration
221 Finance Building
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120

Dear Ms. Lipton:

On March 17, 2017, the open-records officer of the Governor's Office of Administration (OA) received your written request for information. OA is responding to your request under the Pennsylvania Right-To-Know Law, 65 P.S. §§ 67.101, et seq. (RTKL). Under the RTKL, a written response to your request is due on or before March 24, 2017.

On March 24, 2017, we notified you that OA required an additional 30 days, until April 24, 2017.

Your request is granted in part and denied in part as follow:

* The records for which access is granted are attached.
* The information which is denied is a "Comments" column on the attached document; it is exempt from disclosure both as privileged material and under the RTKL provision 65 P.S. § 67.708(b)(10) because it contains legal advice and information used in internal, predecisional deliberations.

* Because of OA's compliance with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's General Records Retention and Disposition schedule, in the record series No. G001.014, Right-To-Know Law Files from M210.9, we only have 2 full years of records in our possession.

You have a right to appeal this response in writing to the Executive Director, Office of Open Records (OOR), Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North Street, 4th Floor, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120. If you choose to file an appeal you must do so within 15 business days of the mailing date of this response and send to the OOR:

1) this response;

2) your request; and

3) the reasons: why you think the record is public (a statement of the grounds you assert for the requested record being a public record); and why you think the agency is wrong in its reasons for saying that the record is not public (a statement that addresses any ground stated by the agency for the denial, which you are challenging). If the agency gave several reasons why the record is not public, state which ones you think were wrong.

Also, the OOR has an appeal form available on the OOR website at: http://www.openrecords.pa.gov/Appeals/AppealForm.cfm.

Sincerely,

Wha Lee Strohecker
Agency Open Records Officer
Governor's Office of Administration
221 Finance Building
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120