Legal Opinion
Owens v. Horn
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 4, 1996PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELLEGRINI, Judge.
Paul B. Owens (Owens) petitions for review of a decision of the Department of Corrections (Department) denying his request for a copy of the Department’s Code of Ethics under the Right-to-Know Act (Act), Act of June 21, 1957, P.L. 390, as amended, 65 P.S. §§ 66.1-66.4.
Owens is presently an inmate at a State Correctional Institution within the Commonwealth. On September 15, 1995, he filed a formal inmate grievance at the institutional level requesting that the Department give him a copy of the Department’s Code of Ethics and its organizational chart. He stated that he would…
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