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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 …
UPDATE (8/22/2015) – See bottom of this post for the list of case documents to date. — Press Release July 16, 2015 For immediate release CONTACT: New Jersey Foundation for Open Government (NJFOG) https://njfog.org/contact/ Union County Superior Court Judge James Hely issued an opinion on Monday, July 13 that the Summit Housing Authority failed to properly reply 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 …
Open government activist John Paff finds that Spotswood’s executive session minutes fall short of OPMA requirement. -NJFOG Sentinel | gmnews.com Feb. 13, 2014 By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer (full article here and re-posted below) SPOTSWOOD — A letter from an open-government advocate has prompted the Spotswood Board of Education attorney to review the board’s compliance with Read More …