OOR: Mezzacappa Has No Right To Immediate Access

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When Wicked Witch of West Easton Tricia Mezzacappa barged into Borough Hall on August 22, cursing and threatening to drown the Borough Council President, Easton police finally had enough of her histrionics and charged her with disorderly conduct and harassment.

On this blog, she claims she was upset because West Easton officials prevented her from getting "public records that are granted RTK requests. I even had the RTK request in my hand ... ."

I'm not sure how that justifies a death threat or ripping information from a community bulletin board. And as it turns out, her claim is untrue, like many of her claims. On Friday, the state Office of Open Records ruled she had no right to the records sought.

You see, she owed money from a previous request. She paid that sum, and then expected West Easton to roll over and immediately comply with her new request. Not so, says the Office of Open Records. If she fails to pay timely for records, she has no right to expect an agency to grant her immediate access to other records.

On this blog, Mezzacappa complains that "[o]nly in government can people pick and choose what they are 'allowed' to do." But this latest Open Record ruling reveals that, if anyone has been picking and choosing, it's been her.

And now she's got a date with a District Judge.

Incidentally, since 2001, she has filed 23 OOR appeals.