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Under New Jersey’s Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA), a public agency may discuss taking adverse action against a public employee in a closed (executive) meeting unless the employee being discussed exercises his or her right to have the discussion conducted in public. In order for the employee to meaningfully exercise that right, the public agency Read More …
UPDATE (11/1/2017): The School Board released a revised invoice on 8/23/2017 but has refused to release the original invoice issued by the vendor in June 2017. A court hearing on the OPRA complaint is scheduled for January 9, 2018. — (original post) The Wall Township School Board claimed an unapproved yearbook invoice is deliberative and Read More …
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release June 22, 2017 On June 21, 2017, Mercer County Assignment Judge Mary C. Jacobson ordered the Lawrence Township Board of Education to better inform the public of the topics it discusses during closed-door meetings and to put more detail into the minutes of those meetings. Jacobson issued her order Read More …
North Bergen School Board wouldn’t cooperate with the state comptroller’s audit request, wanted first to know why they were picked, spent tax dollars to fight it and lost at both the trial and appellate court levels. NJFOG treasurer John Paff described the situation as follows: “In 2015, the State Comptroller decided to conduct a performance Read More …
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release January 20, 2017 Judge rules Spotswood School Board violated Meetings Act In a January 7, 2017 court order, Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Lisa M. Vignuolo ruled that the Spotswood Board of Education violated the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) in five different ways. Vignuolo found that the Read More …