Today the OOR released a report demonstrating that most Pennsylvania government agencies provide Right-to-Know Law (RTKL) information on their websites. However, the compliance rate is lower than in our 2021 review. More encouragingly, all those notified to be out of compliance with this mandate proceeded to post information or pledged to do so in the near future.

The OOR’s report, “2023 Agency Website Review” summarizes the findings of OOR’s review of a sample of 96 state and local agencies’ websites. Just 84 percent of agencies post something about the RTKL on their websites, a decline from 91 percent compared to 2021. As in the past report, compliance for the four specific mandated pieces of information vary significantly:

• 84 percent provide contact information for the agency open records officer;
• 48 percent provide contact information for the Office of Open Records or other applicable appeals officer;
• 80 percent provide a request form; and
• 54 percent provide regulations, policies, and procedures of the agency relating to the RTKL.

Almost three-quarters (73 percent) of agencies provide all of the first three items.

The report includes a sample RTKL webpage posting that can be found here.