An editorial in the Knoxville News Sentinel makes that case that officials at Penn State used exemptions to the open records act specifically for state universities to hide the cover-up of football coach Jerry Sandusky’s on-campus rape of a child.
And without the exemptions, a report on an incident in 1998 may have surfaced and spared other children sexual assault.
From an editorial by the Knoxville News Sentinel, July 17, 2012, by News Sentinel Editorial Board.