Jones v. Office of Open Records

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

Eric N. Jones, a state prison inmate, seeks review of a determination of the Office of Open Records (OOR) denying his written request under the recently re-enacted Right-to-Know Law (Law), 1 for written parole recommendations by the sentencing judge and prosecuting attorney to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board). We affirm the OOR’s determination that the recommendations are exempt from disclosure because they are classified as “private and confidential” under Board regulation 37 Pa.Code § 61.2. 2

Some background to the underlying criminal case is…