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UPDATE (8/17/15) – Judge Marc M. Baldwin will preside over the hearing in Paff v. Lumberton. The hearing is currently scheduled for September 4, 2015. UPDATE (8/18/2015) – Click here for a Burlington County Times news story on this topic. According to the township attorney, the 2011-2013 closed session meeting minutes were stored on a thumb Read More …
Below is an interesting article about the negotiation that went into the OPMA and OPRA reform bills, S781 and S782, which have not yet been put up for Senate Committee vote due mainly to opposition from the League of Municipalities. – NJFOG Prior post on this topic here. JUNE 27, 2015 BY MICHAEL CATALINI ASSOCIATED Read More …
(credit: Walter Luers) We wanted to share with you the successful results of an Open Public Meetings Act lawsuit that was filed by a person in Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey. The name of the lawsuit is Crippen v. Spring Lake Heights Borough Council, and the docket number is MON-L-3347-14. (In case you’re not familiar Read More …
Disappointingly, OPMA and OPRA reform bills S781 and S782, which were scheduled for a 6/23 vote by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, were pulled from the Committee’s agenda. This follows multiple revisions and intense negotiations by many interested parties. NJFOG, the ACLU-NJ, NJPA and SPJ-NJ all supported the bills with Senator Weinberg’s amendments, which Read More …
UPDATE (6/24/15): The bills were pulled from the Committee agenda on 6/23. Your calls and letters are needed! Please see: https://njfog.org/2015/06/24/letter-generator-one-easy-step-for-strong-opma-opra-reform-lets-keep-the-pressure-on/ — New Jersey OPMA and OPRA reform bills, S781 and S782 respectively, are on the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee agenda for its meeting on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Committee Room 4, Read More …