Appellate Court rejects declaratory judgment action against Bergen Co.

Stop & Shop filed a declaratory judgment lawsuit against Bergen County after a record was first disclosed to them with a 2nd OPRA request several years after their first request. The record, though responsive to the first request, was not specifically requested. In this particular set of circumstances, the Appellate Court rejected the suit, in Read More …

OPRA’s “immediate access” provision tested in GRC filing

According to her complaint, the requestor — a former Clifton City Council member — was only allowed to look at the records and was prohibited from photographing them with her cell phone. A board employee had already made copies of the requested records, but taunted the requestor by making “a show of tearing up the Read More …