Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records ruled on Thursday 
that birth dates of the state’s employees as well as the names of its contractors are public, this coming about under Pennsylvania’s newly revised Right-to-Know Law. The Law shields information like employees’ Social Security numbers and home phone numbers, but it does make public their names, and positions, as well as salaries.
The law does not specifically state an exemption of birth records from public disclosure. The law went into effect on the first of January, 2009.
Read more about the subject at the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press website.