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“A Review of the Open Public Records Act (OPRA) and Records Retention” Wednesday, August 17, 2016 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM New Jersey State Museum Auditorium 205 West State Street Trenton, NJ 08625 Registration for this event is required. PRE-REGISTRATION ENDS ON AUGUST 5, 2016. Click here for registration form and instructions. Read More …
The GRC decided in Parave-Fogg v. Lower Alloways Creek Township that public meeting minutes are exempt from OPRA as “inter-agency, intra-agency advisory, consultative, or deliberative material” until they are approved by the public body. This often results in unreasonable delays in public access to these records. Delays of several years are not uncommon. The GRC Read More …
Many people who have sought public meeting minutes have heard the familiar refrain, “the minutes are not approved for release.” That would seem to imply that failure of a governing body to adopt a set of minutes could forever block their release, even for minutes of an open public meeting. The OPMA and OPRA laws Read More …
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 …
Last week, NJFOG announced that it had sent a letter to the Government Records Council (GRC) requesting that the GRC review an OPRA response from the City of Bayonne granting itself an extension of time to fill a request without providing a specific reason or response date. NJFOG asked the GRC to advise the city Read More …