Dear Blog,
How are you? I'm okay, my day has been alright, today in my journalism 220 (Writing for Print Media) class, we were instructed to blog about an assignment we were given. The assignment was to try and obtain a public record. Because of Pa's New Right to Know Law, this assignment sounded like a piece of cake. Well, apparently not.
I wrote to Scranton Pa's Right-To-Know representative, and requested my dad's criminal record. Mostly because I couldn't think of anything else, and also because I'd like to hold something over his head whenever I get into trouble.
After waiting about 2+ weeks for a response, I still haven't recieved anything. No call, email or letters. The information IS available online, but you can only search from the year 2000+, and I wanted his entire record. I sent a follow-up email, but still haven't recieved any response to either the original letter or my followup email.
In my opinion, the Right to Know law is a good law to be active, because as public we do have a right to this information, however, the representatives in charge, should be on top of their game and give the public what they want! I'm going to assume that said representative was busy, but it still would've been nice to have a courtesy phone call.
Love always,
Karah.
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