A Pennsylvania judge on Monday ordered East Stroudsburg University and its fund-raising foundation to turn over a decade of donation records to a local newspaper, setting a potential precedent that nonprofit groups affiliated with public entities are subject to state sunshine laws, the Pocono Record reports.

The Record, which covers northeastern Pennsylvania, had been seeking access to the university’s donor rolls for more than two years as part of an investigation into alleged sexual and financial improprieties by a former East Stroudsburg administrator who also served as the foundation’s executive director. (Those allegations are part of a court battle in which the administrator has fought suggestion of wrongdoing.)

The university had argued the foundation was not subject to disclosure laws because it a private contractor and that contributors’ identities would not be protected. Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini agreed to let the university redact all names and addresses from the contribution records.