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Per the article below, the Brick Board of Education recently stopped providing hyperlinks to documents with its public meeting agenda, a move that contradicts a campaign promise of greater transparency. The Board quotes the Appellate Division’s 2015 ruling in Opderbeck v. Midland Park Board of Education, in which the Court ruled the OPMA does not Read More …
Interpreting the term “agenda” in the the outdated OPMA, the Appellate Division ruled on Aug. 18 in Opderbeck v. Midland Park Board of Education that the board does not need to provide supplementary documents with its meeting agendas. However, the Court called for modernization of the outdated law to coincide with today’s simplified means of Read More …
The Appellate Division on August 18 reversed a lower court ruling that required the Midland Park School Board to provide more documentation with its meeting agendas. The upper court said the outdated OPMA law did not require it but called for modernization of the OPMA to coincide with today’s simplified means of communication and document Read More …