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From coast to coast, officials have tried to block Terence Keel from getting autopsy reports as he studies jail and police-custody deaths. But after clashing with recalcitrant civil servants in California, Illinois, Maryland and Texas, the UCLA professor said no state has vexed him like Pennsylvania. In his quest for
RCFP attorneys represented journalist Brittany Hailer in her two-and-a-half year fight to access records concerning the death of a man in custody.
A state court has ruled that Allegheny County must release a medical examiner’s full autopsy report to journalists or members of the public when they request it, reversing an earlier court decision. An attorney for the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association called the decision “a great win for public access.” In a
A March 2022 lawsuit by YDR and other news sources against York County Clerk of Courts Dan Byrnes over record access has been settled.
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