provide ACLU with an unredacted copy of AR 6-9. We must, and we do, bring this sixyear quest for transparency to an end.
The order of the Commonwealth Court is vacated and the case is remanded for
proceedings consistent with this Opinion.
Chief Justice Todd and Justices Donohue and Dougherty join the opinion.
Justice Mundy files a dissenting opinion in which Justice Brobson joins.
discretion pursuant to the text and structure of the RTKL in Bowling II,” and it submits that
“the proper course of action would be to remand to the Commonwealth Court to make a
final determination based upon the record as it currently exists.” Dissenting Op. at 7. The
fact that the Commonwealth Court already has concluded that the Burig Affidavit is
insufficient to justify PSP’s redactions fatally undermines both points. Whether a record
is exempt from disclosure is indeed a factual question, see id. at 5 (quoting Bowling II, 75
A.3d at 476), but in light of the Commonwealth Court’s opinion in PSP III, it is no longer
an outstanding factual question. Furthermore, the Dissent’s proposed course of action is
perplexing because the Commonwealth Court has already made its determination “based
upon the record as it currently exists.” Id. at 7 n.7.
Relatedly, while the remand in Bowling II was not “at the behest of a party,” id., the
critical distinction remains that no court in that case had explicitly determined that the
agency’s proffered justification for redaction was insufficient.
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