Justice Donohue framed the issue: In a case of first impression, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court considered whether the Office of Open Records (“OOR”) has the authority to review the denial of an individual’s request for records pursuant to the Right to Know Law (“RTKL”) where a public utility has designated records responsive to the request as confidential security information (“CSI”) under the Public Utility Confidential Security Information Disclosure Protection Act. The Supreme Court held that the Public Utility Commission has exclusive authority to review such requests and, therefore, the OOR erred in exercising jurisdiction over the CSI-designated records. As a result, the Supreme Court affirmed the Commonwealth Court’s order reversingOOR’sOOOR’sdisclosure order.
