Amelia Kennedy had this information in Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Here is an excerpt:

In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of five local news organizations, attorneys for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press argue that the practices and policies of the York County Clerk of Courts office in Pennsylvania are routinely and unconstitutionally stifling transparency in the county’s criminal court system.

The lawsuit, brought by the York Daily Record, The York Dispatch, Spotlight PA, LNP Media Group and WITF, describes a pattern in the Clerk of Courts office of preventing journalists from obtaining timely and comprehensive access to court records filed in criminal cases — a right guaranteed to the press and public under both the First Amendment and the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Paula Knudsen Burke, the Reporters Committee’s Local Legal Initiative attorney in the state, is representing the news organizations in the case. The complaint, filed on March 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, lays out numerous instances in which the news organizations allege Clerk of Courts Daniel Byrnes and his staff have delayed, improperly restricted and overcharged for access to judicial records. The Clerk of Courts is an elected position in the county, and its office, according to its website, is responsible for maintaining a record of the docketing and events associated with approximately 8,000 to 9,000 criminal cases per year for the York County Court of Common Pleas.

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