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For Lehigh County public records, send county Right-to-Know requests through the published Open Records Officer process, describe the existing record and responsible county function clearly, and keep the county policy and record-producing department with the final response.
Lehigh County gives Right-to-Know requests a defined county officer
Open Records Officer
The Department of Law houses the county Open Records Officer
That officer receives and responds to county Right-to-Know requests, providing a clear county submission point rather than requiring a requester to guess among unrelated departments.
Policy
The county publishes a Right-to-Know policy
The policy explains the county framework and keeps the request connected to Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law rather than an informal information inquiry.
Contact context
The policy publishes Open Records Officer contact information
Keep that official contact and the request reference with the response so later follow-up remains tied to the same county access process.
A Lehigh County Right-to-Know request is still a request for county records
| Request question | Useful approach | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Which county office owns the underlying record? | Name the department or county function when known | The Open Records Officer coordinates the request but does not erase where the record was created or maintained. |
| What record is being requested? | Describe the existing document or record set precisely | A defined request is easier to route and search than an unlimited topic. |
| Which rules govern the county process? | Use the published Open Records Policy | Keep county Right-to-Know procedure distinct from another jurisdiction’s public-record process. |
A clean Lehigh County request trail has four parts
1
Describe the county recordName the document type, department, subject and useful date range before submitting the request.2
Send it through the Open Records Officer processUse the Department of Law route identified by the county for Right-to-Know requests.3
Preserve any routing or clarificationIf the request is narrowed or sent to a particular county office for search, keep that step with the request history.4
Keep the county policy attached to the processUse the published Lehigh County policy when interpreting procedure rather than importing rules from another agency or municipality.How to read a Lehigh County response in context
The Open Records Officer gives the request a countywide access channel, but the responsive record can still come from a specific department. That department context matters when the record needs to be updated, verified or compared with another source. Preserve both the Open Records Officer request reference and the office that actually supplied the material.
A county Right-to-Know response should also remain separate from records held by municipalities, courts or other government bodies that happen to be located in Lehigh County. The county policy governs the county process; another custodian may have a different access route even when the subject is related.