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A Mercer County lawsuit filed by MapLight, a California-based watchdog group, challenges the propriety of leaving to a private citizen and his private law firm the discretion to grant or deny access to public records. The private citizen in this case is the state’s former governor, and the records being sought are email communications relating Read More …
The Record received 90 heavily redacted pages from the governor’s office in response to a lawsuit seeking emails pertaining to planning for the Harrison PATH ceremony held 3 days after the Bridgegate scandal broke. Mercer County Judge Mary C. Jacobson rejected the administration’s claim that the communications were exempt as “advisory, consultative or deliberative” or Read More …
A Nutley Commissioner up for re-election is questioned over what appears to be his use of municipal alert system email addresses for his own political campaign. Essex Watch founder and Nutley resident Lee Dorry, who himself received a campaign-related email sent to a personal email address that was provided for town alerts, is quoted in Read More …