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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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