Brown v. Community College of Philadelphia

FRIEDMAN, Judge.

Janell D. Brown, Angelita Hogan, and William E. Cunnane, III, (collectively, the Editors) are former editors of the Student Vanguard, the Community College of Philadelphia’s (CCP) campus newspaper. CCP administrators denied the Editors’ request to examine campus security records. The Editors appealed that denial to the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County (trial court), asserting that CCP was required to release such information pursuant to the Act of June 21, 1957, P.L. 390, as amended, 65 P.S. §§ 66.1-66.4, commonly referred to as the Right-to-Know Act. The trial court…