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Rare common law right of access case where portions of two documents regarding a pension fraud investigation may have to be disclosed. -NJFOG By S.P. Sullivan NJ Advance Media for NJ.com November 12, 2015 (updated November 13, 2015) (Article here and re-posted below.) TRENTON — A state appeals panel has ordered the release of documents Read More …
On November 6, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court agreed to hear Bloomfield Township’s (Essex County) appeal of a May 13, 2015 Appellate Division ruling that required the Township to provide an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) requestor with 14 hours of video taken by a stationary camera located on the back of Bloomfield’s municipal Read More …
“Jeter’s lawyer sought the second dash camera video through an Open Public Records Act request… Based on the newly discovered video, the prosecutor’s office dismissed the charges against Jeter and opened an investigation into the officers that resulted in an Essex County grand jury returning an indictment against the officers in January of 2014.” -from Read More …
In New Jersey, police misconduct findings are rarely made public. The WNYC study ranks access to these records in New Jersey as confidential versus many other states where access is either public or limited. See the article for interesting color-coded diagrams showing state by state openness. -NJFOG WNYC News Oct 15, 2015 by Robert Lewis, Read More …
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release On August 31, 2015, the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government, Inc. (NJFOG) submitted a formal Petition for Rulemaking to the Local Finance Board (LFB) within the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA). (The petition and NJFOG’s cover letter can also be found on the DCA’s website.) NJFOG’s petition Read More …