Commonwealth v. Mines

In Commonwealth v. Mines, 680 A.2d 1227 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1996), which considered an inmate's request for a broad array of police investigative information under the former Right-to-Know Law (Prior Law), the Court stated that "A 'police blotter' is simply a chronological compilation of original records of entry. In other words, they are the equivalent of incident reports." Mines, 680 A.2d at 1229 In Mines, the Court was not actually considering an incident report, but merely stating that we generally believed an incident report to be "a chronological compilation of original records of entry." Mines, 680 A.2d at 1229.