Arneson v. Wolf

DISSENTING OPINION BY

President Judge DAN PELLEGRINI.

Hearing the sirens call that the only way the Righb-to-Know Law (RTKL)1 can work is if the Executive Director of the Office of Open Records (OOR) is not subject to removal by the Governor who appointed him, the majority finds that the Governor cannot remove a person from that position without cause, even though Article VI, Section 7 of the Pennsylvania Constitution says that he can. By so holding, the majority unconstitutionally interferes with the Governor’s grant of authority in Article TV, Section 2 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, by…