I usually don’t post about local issues, but this is so boneheaded I am almost speechless…ok, so let’s all forget that it is not the requestors who are costing the Township additional money, it’s the officials, elected and hired, who are obscuring the requested information who originally forced passage of Pennsylvania’s new Right-to-Know law. If the Township, and all local governments were completely open and transparent in the first place, this law would not be necessary to force them to be so. No, instead, let’s punish people and organizations who are using the new law to open-up all of the secretive nonsense Township officials are trying to hide by publishing their names on the Web and holding them up to ridicule. What information do you need to protect from public view, Mr. Knepper?

Here’s a better idea; publish the names of those officials who originally obscured the requested information. Maybe if you blame the right person and hold them up to ridicule, they will stop trying to cover their rear-ends by hiding information the public has a right to know. Or maybe, just maybe, they’ll stop doing things that need to be hidden and remember they work for the citizens, not the government corporation.