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The five day clock, kept for you
Every request is dated on receipt and counted in business days, with Commonwealth holidays already on the calendar. Extensions, interim responses, and deemed denial dates are computed the moment you log them.
Open Desk for Pennsylvania agencies
Five business days.
Every time.
The request desk for Pennsylvania local agencies and the solicitors who advise them. Log a Right-to-Know request once. Open Desk counts the days, drafts the letter, and keeps the log.
Open Desk does not take payment on this site.
The work
Three duties, done without the binder.
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Letters in the statute's own form
Grant, partial grant, denial, and 30-day extension letters are drafted with the citations your solicitor expects, ready to sign on letterhead. The officer decides. The software does not pick exemptions.
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A log the OOR will recognize
Every request, response, and appeal lands in one ledger you can export for council, an auditor, or the Office of Open Records.
- Written for the Right-to-Know Law, 65 P.S. § 67.101 et seq.
- Your records stay private to your agency. Your files are never shared with requesters or used for anything but your desk.
- You make every legal call. The software never decides an exemption.
- If an appeal comes, you have a complete, unchangeable record of every request, letter, and deadline.
- It works alongside your open records officer and solicitor.
Fees
One line in the budget.
Pay annually and save about 10%.
Prices are per agency per year, with unlimited staff users. Monthly billing is available at a slightly higher rate.
| Requests a year | A year | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 24 | $500 a year | $46 a month |
| 25 to 49 | $800 a year | $73 a month |
| 50 to 99 | $1,200 a year | $110 a month |
| 100 to 199 | $1,700 a year | $156 a month |
| 200 to 399 | $2,500 a year | $229 a month |
| 400 or more | $3,500 a year | $321 a month |
For the solicitor
One retainer for every client agency.
$2,500 a year for up to 5 agencies. Each additional agency is $400 a year. Paid monthly, that is $229 a month, or $37 a month for each additional agency.
A solicitor's own login is free on any agency that pays for itself.
The agency still owns its data. You cannot buy a plan on this page. Ask a question below.
Watch
See how it works.
Short recordings of the desk. No appointment.
Coming soon
Logging a request in two minutes
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The five-day clock and extensions
Coming soon
Drafting a denial letter
Coming soon
For solicitors: watching several agencies
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