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| #e.21628 | Wednesday 6:30PM to 8:00PM
October 10,
2012 | CM | 1.50 |
What you don’t know about “Right-To-Know”APA Pennsylvania ChapterAllentown, PA Planners and other interested professional and municipal entities throughout the Lehigh Valley Region will hear first-hand about the intricacies of the “Right to Know” Law. The presentation will address important definitions under Pennsylvania’s recently enacted Right to Know Law and the types of records covered and the requester and agency responsibilities with regard to requests for such records.
This session will also address the more than 30 plus exemptions under the law. In addition, this law session will stress what private professionals who deal or contract with local and Commonwealth agencies need to know to protect sensitive information from public disclosure and how to acquire information from these agencies under the Right to Know in helping with contract and bid responses.
Instructors: Craig J. Staudenmaier, Esquire Mr. Staudenmaier is a partner in the Harrisburg law firm of Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall, LLP. His practice is concentrated in the areas of state and federal litigation and media law. He routinely represents the print and broadcast media, businesses and private individuals in public records and open meetings matters and subpoena of reporters, privacy and defamation claims. He has presented lectures on “Right to Know” and Sunshine Law issues across the Commonwealth to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. He has appeared before numerous trial courts and administrative agencies on such issues and has successfully argued public records issues before the Commonwealth and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, including as lead counsel for the media entities in the Penn State University/Paterno salary and PHEAA open records cases. As an experienced trial lawyer, he has tried numerous cases to verdict in favor of his clients in both the state and federal courts. He is also general counsel to the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition. In addition to his admission to the Pennsylvania Bar, he is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He is immediate-past Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Bar Press Committee, as well as a member of the PBA’s Business and Civil Litigation Sections. Mr. Staudenmaier is a member of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, and an affiliate member of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. In 2007, he was a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, and has been selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College and the Dickinson School of Law. (9 Ratings)
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