The Commonwealth Court held that a request seeking “all correspondence … concerning” a mortgage restructuring and workout project “and, or distributed to the Board” was insufficiently specific, finding that the Office of Open Records lacks statutory authority to narrow the scope of the request so that it becomes sufficiently specific.
The Commonwealth Court vacated a final determination of the Office of Open Records for lack of jurisdiction in a case arising from a request for records involving the liquidation of an insurance company.
The court ruled that because it had appointed the state’s insurance commissioner to be the liquidator of the company, all records related to the liquidation were under the control of the court and could not be accessed through the Right to Know Law.