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	Penn State Could Be Forced to Open Records Chronicle of Higher Education November 19, 2011 http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/penn-state-could-be-forced-to-open-records/38295 Spurred by the sex-abuse scandal at Penn State University, a state lawmaker plans to introduce legislation to end the university’s exemption from open-records requirements, The Morning Call, a Lehigh Valley newspaper, reports. Changes that strengthened the state’s open-records law in 2008 exempted Penn State, along with Temple University, Lincoln University, and the University of Pittsburgh. The universities had argued for the exemption because they receive a mix of private and public money. At the time, Penn State president Graham Spanier said that including the universities under open-record requirements would discourage anonymous donors, expose salary information that would help other institutions lure employees away, and could raise intellectual property issues. State Sen. John Blake (D-Lackawanna County) told The Morning Call that he had long been considering revisions to the statute but that the scandal at Penn State had prompted his plans to introduce a bill early next year. The university has denied journalists’ requests for documents related to the employment of Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant coach charged with 40 counts of child molestation.
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