Incident reports regarding jail fatality are disclosable under OPRA

Upholding a lower court, an Appellate Court ruled on 6/4/2018 that incident reports relating to a Union County jail inmate’s death are disclosable, subject to appropriate redactions for personal identifiers. The Court rejected the argument that an incident report is exempt from disclosure as a medical record.

 

NJ Open Government Notes
Appeals court rules that Union County jail’s inmate suicide and overdose fatality incident reports are disclosable under OPRA
by John Paff
June 4, 2018