Daily Archives: August 15, 2012


Request for emails not specific enough

The Commonwealth Court held that a request for county emails was insufficiently specific because it did not provide a specific timeframe, identify individual senders or recipients, or specify county departments that might have the requested email.
The court explained that the request was overly broad even though it sought emails to and from five domains and identified key terms in the emails, as the terms were too broad and did not provide any context with which to limit the county’s search for responsive records.