PA OAG v. B. Bumsted, Capitol Reporter Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

OPINION BY

President Judge DAN PELLEGRINI.

The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General (OAG) petitions for review of a final determination of its designated Right-to-Know Law (RTKL)2 Appeals Officer (Appeals Officer)3 granting Brad Bumsted’s (Requestor)4 request under the RTKL for emails containing pornographic materials. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

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In July 2014, Requestor, the State Capitol Reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, submitted an email request' under the RTKL to the OAG seeking copies of “any emails or other documents on an internal [OAG] review of pornographic…