Commonwealth v. Office of Open Records

OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

In this open-records matter, we are called upon to construe Section 703 of the Right-to-Know Law (RTKL), 65 P.S. § 67.703 (“Section 703”), setting forth the requirements for written RTKL requests for access to public records, to determine proper application of the provision which directs that all such requests “must be' addressed to the open-records officer.” For reasons stated below, we hold that in order to establish a valid RTKL request sufficient to trigger appellate rights from a nonresponse under the RTKL, the re-questor must address his request to the…