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On May 23, 2018, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the sale of public property calls for transparency and that the identity of buyers at public auctions must be disclosed in order to guard against fraud and abuse. The particular case before the Court concerned the sale of confiscated sports memorabilia. We note that Read More …
Government agencies conduct surveys for a variety of reasons, such as to determine public opinion on an issue, the level of need for a service, or the extent of a problem. The applicability of the Open Public Records Act — and/or common law right of access — to the responses for one such survey is Read More …
Following last year’s adoption of an ordinance restricting video-recording of the Township’s governing body meetings, Lyndhurst Township now pays for the service but has yet to make the videos readily available. The original plan when the Board of Commissioners voted to hire the videographer was to post the videos online on the Township’s official website. Read More …
Insurance buyers have an interest in understanding how insurance executives are being compensated. The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (NJ DOBI) holds that such information is public. The Inquirer | Philly.com N.J. regulators back disclosure of health insurers’ executive pay by Harold Brubaker & Andrew Seidman, staff writers April 4, 2018 Read More …
Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records has ruled that the package offered to incentivize Amazon to establish a new headquarters in the Lehigh Valley is a public record. New Jersey’s pitch includes $7 billion in tax breaks. There is at least one case pending in New Jersey for access to these records under OPRA. The Read More …