The state legislature is considering making updates to the state’s Right to Know Law.
The bill’s sponsor is Representative Louis Schmitt and he says work on this bill began over a year ago in order to make big changes to the current law.
“I was amazed when I went through the process about how many people and entities and interests were touched by the Right to Know law that I could have never anticipated,” Schmitt said. “And so as it went through it’s various iterations before it became House Bill 2524, it became what interested parties told me they needed it to be.”
Locally, Butler County has had to deal with more Right to Know requests from citizens. This past week, the county approved the hiring of a new Right to Know request officer, who will work to produce this information.