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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 …
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 …
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 …
March 15-21 is National Sunshine Week, a yearly event that highlights the importance of open government and our “right to know” as citizens engaged in our own governance. Established in 2001, the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government (NJFOG) is the only organization in New Jersey dedicated solely to improving public access to government records Read More …