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The New Jersey Foundation for Open Government (NJFOG) filed a lawsuit (Docket No. MER-L-11-15) against the Trenton Board of Education earlier this year. The suit involves multiple violations of the Open Public Records Act (OPRA) and Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA). NJFOG previously announced that OPRA counts were decided in our favor, with a hearing Read More …
Below is an interesting article about the negotiation that went into the OPMA and OPRA reform bills, S781 and S782, which have not yet been put up for Senate Committee vote due mainly to opposition from the League of Municipalities. – NJFOG Prior post on this topic here. JUNE 27, 2015 BY MICHAEL CATALINI ASSOCIATED 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 …
Disappointingly, OPMA and OPRA reform bills S781 and S782, which were scheduled for a 6/23 vote by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, were pulled from the Committee’s agenda. This follows multiple revisions and intense negotiations by many interested parties. NJFOG, the ACLU-NJ, NJPA and SPJ-NJ all supported the bills with Senator Weinberg’s amendments, which Read More …
UPDATE (6/24/15): The bills were pulled from the Committee agenda on 6/23. Your calls and letters are needed! Please see: https://njfog.org/2015/06/24/letter-generator-one-easy-step-for-strong-opma-opra-reform-lets-keep-the-pressure-on/ — New Jersey OPMA and OPRA reform bills, S781 and S782 respectively, are on the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee agenda for its meeting on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Committee Room 4, Read More …