The Pennsylvania Coalition for Informed Consent (PCIC) works to preserve the vital personal freedom and human right to informed consent, privacy, and choice for medical procedures in Pennsylvania. We urge Pennsylvania legislators to support these fundamental rights by taking action on specific bills.
Advocacy, RTK and FIOA
Advocacy begins with understanding the Law, how it is created and who is affected. Children’s Health Defense Page “Learning about the Law” can help.
Welcome to the NVIC Advocacy Portal (NVICAP) – Become a member and receive vital information about what is occurring in PA. The National Vaccine Information Center wants to help our members to organize and make a difference in your home state right where you live, expand your rights, and stop forced vaccination.
Just minutes of your time on letters, emails, and phone calls to your state legislators and the media can make the difference. NVIC will send you advocacy alert emails when action is needed to support efforts in your state on important legislation to protect and expand state vaccination exemption laws. We will provide you with the steps, tools and connection to state leaders and organizations to help you make a positive impact on your rights to exercise informed consent in the vaccination decision making process. Please check your State Team page for any active action alerts or announcements.
HOW TO FILE A RIGHT TO KNOW (RTK) REQUEST
Do you want to know more about how the decision making is made in your town, county, city or state? Most public records are request-able by the public by filing a RTK request with the agency in question’s RTK officer or office. Everything from emails to contracts are addressable in Pennsylvania. For FOIA filings please look at CHD’s FOIA Presentation.
Below is a guide designed to help you file an effective Right-to-Know (RTK) request.
The State’s Office of Open Records has training videos to help you familiarize yourself with filing and appealing RTK requests.
HOW TO FILE A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) REQUEST
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests can be used to obtain information from the federal government and state governments. For example, the ongoing “data dump” about Pfizer’s development of the COVID vaccine is the result of a FOIA request made to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The U.S. Department of Justice Guide to the Freedom of Information Act is a comprehensive legal treatise on the FOIA. The guide includes detailed discussions of the FOIA’s procedural requirements, nine exemptions and litigation considerations. Each section contains a detailed analysis of the key judicial opinions issued on the FOIA.
Please visit CHD National’s FOIA information page for info and help with do-it-yourself filing.
More info on FOIA can be found here. FOIA-Fact-Sheet
Our collaborating organization Informed Consent Action Network has documented a detailed FOIA case study here.
