I am one of the strongest advocates of the Pennsylvania Right to Know Law and the Office of Open Records, having created that agency, its policies and procedures, and all from a cubicle and armed only with a copy of the law. From those meager beginnings in 2008, the OOR has burgeoned into a 22-person, $2 million budget office, now under the stewardship of its third executive director. The OOR, whose appeals officers have a higher workload than a Philadelphia assistant district attorney, does a remarkable job independently arbitrating whether a record of a government agency is public. Most of the time, I agree with the office's legal conclusions.