Pushback: Court rules that PA school district denied parent public documents in “bad faith”
Megan Brock, without question still
being targeted by the government
Bring a gun to a knife fight: When Pennsylvania parent Megan Brock demanded, under her state’s right-to-know law, public documents of the Bucks County health department concerning its decisions to impose Wuhan flu lockdowns and school closures (with the office of open records ruling in her favor), county officials then sued her multiple times to try to prevent her access to the records.
The court has now ruled against the county’s lawsuits, while also ruling that the county had operated in “bad faith” and fined it $1,500, the maximum allowed by law.
After the court conducted an in-camera review of the records, Judge Denise M. Bowman ruled on April 28 that more than half of Brock’s requests, which were made under the state’s Right-to-Know Law (RTK), had been withheld “in bad faith.” She ordered the county to release certain documents and pay $1,500 in sanctions for each of the two lawsuits brought against Brock, the maximum allowed under RTK.
You can read the ruling here [pdf]. It notes in particular how county officials had even refused to provide the court one of these documents for review, demonstrating clearly its bad faith.
The county now has to turn over these requested documents to Brock within ten days, as well as pay her the fine. The right-to-know law also includes a $500 per day fine if the county fails to provide, and we should expect that fine to be impose should it continue to defy the law.
Though Brock and her supporters are calling this a massive victory, it should be noted that the court agreed with the county in connection with half the requested documents, allowing the county to deny the public access to them.
In other words, the legal system has now begun splitting hairs so as to make some public records, written under certain conditions, permanently secret. In the long run, this process is not going to go in the right direction. Bucks County has now demonstrated that by suing, a government agency in Pennsylvania can not only delay the release of right-to-know documents with only a tiny financial risk, it stands an excellent chance of having the courts rule in its favor on the bulk of the documents.
And it can do this using the taxpayer’s money, against the taxpayer!
If you have any doubts about the history of this story, and the totalitarian efforts of the government officials here, you need only listen to Brock’s testimony before the Pennsylvania State Senate in October 2022, which I have embedded below. Her story at its essence is horrifying, not because of what happened to her, but by what it tells us about the evil that many government officials eagerly wish to impose, by force, on little children.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Megan Brock, without question still
being targeted by the government
Bring a gun to a knife fight: When Pennsylvania parent Megan Brock demanded, under her state’s right-to-know law, public documents of the Bucks County health department concerning its decisions to impose Wuhan flu lockdowns and school closures (with the office of open records ruling in her favor), county officials then sued her multiple times to try to prevent her access to the records.
The court has now ruled against the county’s lawsuits, while also ruling that the county had operated in “bad faith” and fined it $1,500, the maximum allowed by law.
After the court conducted an in-camera review of the records, Judge Denise M. Bowman ruled on April 28 that more than half of Brock’s requests, which were made under the state’s Right-to-Know Law (RTK), had been withheld “in bad faith.” She ordered the county to release certain documents and pay $1,500 in sanctions for each of the two lawsuits brought against Brock, the maximum allowed under RTK.
You can read the ruling here [pdf]. It notes in particular how county officials had even refused to provide the court one of these documents for review, demonstrating clearly its bad faith.
The county now has to turn over these requested documents to Brock within ten days, as well as pay her the fine. The right-to-know law also includes a $500 per day fine if the county fails to provide, and we should expect that fine to be impose should it continue to defy the law.
Though Brock and her supporters are calling this a massive victory, it should be noted that the court agreed with the county in connection with half the requested documents, allowing the county to deny the public access to them.
In other words, the legal system has now begun splitting hairs so as to make some public records, written under certain conditions, permanently secret. In the long run, this process is not going to go in the right direction. Bucks County has now demonstrated that by suing, a government agency in Pennsylvania can not only delay the release of right-to-know documents with only a tiny financial risk, it stands an excellent chance of having the courts rule in its favor on the bulk of the documents.
And it can do this using the taxpayer’s money, against the taxpayer!
If you have any doubts about the history of this story, and the totalitarian efforts of the government officials here, you need only listen to Brock’s testimony before the Pennsylvania State Senate in October 2022, which I have embedded below. Her story at its essence is horrifying, not because of what happened to her, but by what it tells us about the evil that many government officials eagerly wish to impose, by force, on little children.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
Bucks county is 15 minutes from where I live. It has been having quite a few issues. Unfortunately, they are spreading. The end result, however, is that good people will not run for public office due to the crazy they will have to endure – from both sides of the aisle.
The swamp has got to normalize pedophilia before Epstein’s black book is released.
Back in 1959, Edmund Schiddel wrote a controversial (for the time) novel called The Devil in Bucks County. It sounds like the Devil stuck around and went to work for county government. Good on Ms. Brock for attempting to exorcise him.
Should some semblance of our current country / culture / civilization survive*, it is interesting to think about how future novelists might write about this bizarre period. What will they say about us as people, and what might they posit as the motivations of both the governments of our time and the citizenry who willingly submitted to all of the chaos and bad faith that they promoted?
* https://www.aol.com/news/washington-state-decriminalize-drugs-unless-133057262.html
and in the Peoples Republic of San Francisco, presumably over the strenuous objections of Mayor Breed?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gov-newsom-activates-national-guard-and-highway-patrol-combat-san-franciscos-drug-crisis