Drexel Hill PA

I would say that from the experience of researching the open records of Drexel Hill, PA was overall rather simple. The worst part of the whole experience would probably be the time it took for my letter to arrive and for them to return my letter, only to have it say that they needed my drivers license to give me the information (proof of living in PA). Otherwise i found navigating the Better Government Association's website frustrating, but eventually I found what was required, which was PA being ranked #47 in regards to open records, and Alabama/South Dakota being tied for the place below PA.

Emailing the legislators was a tedious and unproductive task, but I did get an actual response from one of them, Edwin B. Erickson (better known as Ted apparently). He was initially unlisted on the website, but he was involved in getting the open records law to where it is today in PA, so he responded with a letter of confusion. He listed himself as Ted in the email, so I checked the website again and got results for Ted Erickson, so apparently I was initially mislead. All the other legislators were either listed, or required jumping through hoops to reach, so I hit a dead end with this end.

Overall it wasn't too hard to get any of the information, which is surprising considering how poor our ranking is on the list. I wrote my letter to my highschool requesting their legal fees spent for the year 2006 and mailed it April 5th, and had a return letter arrive April 14th. They were willing to give me the information over the phone about halfway through this process, but in the spirit of the assignment I declined and told them to just send me the letter they planned on sending, which was the request for my drivers license number. I could have obtained the information, but I wouldn't have had proof that it was legitimate information unless I mailed another letter and wait for that to be answered.