Right to Know Law Request

Requesting Public Records

To request City of Pittsburgh records (such as police records, permit records, etc), please follow the directions here from the Law Department or by emailing openrecords@pittsburghpa.gov. We will redirect your request to Law if you send a general City record request to us.

If you are looking for Commission on Human Relations records specifically (having to to do with past discrimination cases, for instance), follow the directions below:

Download a copy of PghCHR's Right to Know Law Policy(PDF, 364KB).

If you would like to request public records from PghCHR, please do so by downloading, filling out, and submitting the Standard Right-to-Know Request Form, which is available at the PA Office of Open Records Forms webpage, to PghCHR's Open Records Officer ("AORO") as follows:

By Mail:
414 Grant St., Suite 908
City-County Building
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

In Person:
414 Grant St., Suite 908
City-County Building
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
(9th Floor, Ross St. side of the Building)

Phone: 412-255-2600

Fax: 412-255-2288

Email: human.relations@pittsburghpa.gov

To challenge the denial, partial denial, or deemed denial of a request for Agency records, an appeal may be filed using the OOR appeal form, or by contacting the OOR at the following address:

Office of Open Records
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
333 Market St., 16th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17101-2234
openrecords@pa.gov

To challenge the denial of a request or portion of a request on the basis that records were withheld because they are related to criminal investigative records, an appeal should be filed by contacting:

Allegheny County District Attorney’s RTKL Chapter 11 Appeals Officer
Assistant District Attorney Kevin McCarthy
Room 303 Courthouse
436 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: 412-350-4401
Fax: 412-350-3311
KMcCarthy@alleghenycountyda.us