Pa. officials will not release other aides' resumes
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Angela Couloumbis
January 19, 2012
In the wake of controversy over the professional background of one of its high-level welfare advisers, the Corbett administration refused Wednesday to release the resumés of other top aides in the Department of Public Welfare who help set social and health policies for the state.
On Tuesday, Robert W. Patterson, a special assistant to Welfare Secretary Gary Alexander, resigned from his $104,470 position as The Inquirer was preparing to publish a story about his side job - writing for and editing a conservative, faith-based journal called the Family in America. Those writings included criticisms of key welfare programs administered by DPW, musings that a woman's ideal role in society is as a stay-at-home mother, and a belief that condom use robs women of mood-enhancing benefits of semen.
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Resumes are not in listed in the laundry list of exemptions from the state's Right to Know law. And the Office of Open Records has ruled in a number of cases that they are public records, subject to redaction of certain personal information.
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