Barkeyville Borough v. Stearns

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• holding that trial court committed reversible error in awarding attorney fees, and finding “[t]here is no evidence in the record that the Borough acted in bad faith or that it unreasonably interpreted the law.”
• holding that trial court committed reversible error in awarding attorney fees, and finding “[t]here is no evidence in the record that the Borough acted in bad faith or that it unreasonably interpreted the law.”
• holding personal emails at issue exchanged between borough council members were records “of the borough”
• finding that emails were subject to disclosure because, inter alia, the council members were acting in their official capacity as elected officials when they “exchanged emails that documented the Borough’s consideration of land development plans”
• requiring disclosure of emails of individual public officials as records of agency because emails discussed borough business
• affirming trial court ruling requiring production of emails after the trial court “note[d] that even deleted emails continue to exist from the moment of transmission and may be accessed from any computer with internet connection.”

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