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In Flemington Borough, a special service charge will now apply to OPRA requests that are expected to take more than 2 hours to fill. The mayor has stated that the large majority of requests would not be affected. Under OPRA, a special service charge is allowed for requests that take a great deal of time Read More …
Superior Court Judge Travis Francis ruled that the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s $685 special service charge for civil forfeiture records requested by the ACLU is unjustified because gathering the records does not require a “Herculean effort”. Francis cited compliance by other agencies and limited the charge to the statutory fee for paper copies. NJ Advance Read More …