{"id":127713,"date":"2024-02-22T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127713"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T23:30:16","slug":"treasurer-stacy-garrity-piaa-must-comply-with-right-to-know-law-by-posting-contracts-to-e-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127713","title":{"rendered":"Treasurer Stacy Garrity: PIAA Must Comply with Right-to-Know Law by Posting Contracts to e-Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

PA Supreme Court upholds Commonwealth Court, OOR rulings<\/em><\/p>\n

Harrisburg, PA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Following a strong decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Treasurer Stacy Garrity today called on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) to immediately comply with the Right-to-Know Law (RTKL) by posting its contracts to Treasury\u2019s\u00a0Contracts e-Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past 15 years, the PIAA has violated the Right-to-Know Law by not posting a single contract to the Contracts e-Library,\u201d Treasurer Garrity said. \u201cThat changes now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Treasurer Garrity sent a letter to the PIAA today, notifying the agency that Treasury is prepared to work with them to get its contracts posted online promptly, and that she believes a reasonable timeline would have its contracts posted no later than March 29.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe General Assembly wisely chose to make the PIAA subject to the Right-to-Know Law in 2008,\u201d Treasurer Garrity said. \u201cOur student athletes and their parents deserve transparency from the agency that regulates middle school and high school athletics across our state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0majority decision<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0PIAA v. Campbell<\/em>, authored by Justice Sallie Updyke Mundy, found that the RTKL clearly and appropriately lists the PIAA as a \u201cstate-affiliated entity.\u201d Justice Mundy noted that the \u201cPIAA plays a vital role in managing an important aspect of the education of middle- and high-school students in Pennsylvania\u201d and concluded that \u201cPIAA\u2019s records are therefore public records to the extent they are not exempt\u201d under the RTKL.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0concurring opinion<\/a>, Justice David N. Wecht listed some of the many aspects of a student athlete\u2019s life regulated by the PIAA. He concluded that the \u201cPIAA has become the functional equivalent of a government regulatory agency performing the public function of controlling or affecting nearly every aspect of athletics in public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 100 state agencies have posted more than 500,000 contracts, purchase orders and amendments to the Contracts e-Library since it was created by the RTKL in 2008.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Supreme Court decision followed decisions by the\u00a0Office of Open Records<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Commonwealth Court<\/a>, both of which also found that the PIAA is subject to the RTKL.<\/p>\n

STACY GARRITY, STATE TREASURER<\/p>\n

www.patreasury.gov<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Information provided to TVL by:
\nSamantha Heckel<\/p>\n

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