Right to Know Law

On Feb. 14, 2008, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania adopted Act 3 of 2008 to substantially amend Pennsylvania's public records law, known as the "Right-to-Know Law," which has governed the records request protocol for Commonwealth and local agencies since 1957.

Pursuant to the revised law, a record is defined as follows:

"Information, regardless of physical form or characteristics, that documents a transaction or activity of an agency that is created, received or retained pursuant to law or in connection with a transaction, business or activity of the agency. The term includes a document, paper, letter, map, book, tape, photograph, film or sound recording, information stored or maintained electronically and a data-processed or image-processed document."

Click here to download the Right to Know Request Form PDF.

Open Records Officer:

Tracy Harris
District Administration Building 
830 Old Clairton Road
Jefferson Hills, PA 15025
openrecordsofficer@wjhsd.net

Any and all inquiries under the Open Records Policy should be directed to the Open Records Officer.

Contact Info for the Office of Open Records:

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Office of Open Records
Commonwealth Keystone Building
400 North Street, 4th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17120-0225

(Ph) 717-346-9903
(Fax) 717-425-5343
openrecords@state.pa.us