Luzerne denies records request
WILKES-BARRE - Luzerne County denied an open records request for emails by claiming Tom Pizano, acting director of elections and acting clerk of courts, is in charge of a "judicial agency" and emails from judicial employees can remain confidential.
The county denied access to Mr. Pizano's emails by asserting, among other reasons, he has one email account for two jobs and responding to the email request "would be a burden" for the "understaffed" county "to sort through and review all of the emails."
After county Manager Robert Lawton fired Leonard Piazza as director of elections in April, he appointed Mr. Pizano acting director of elections. The Citizens' Voice filed a request July 26 for access to Mr. Pizano's emails since Nov. 1.