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The Jersey Journal sued the City of Bayonne and the New Jersey Intergovernmental Insurance Commission (NJIIC) for access to a police brutality settlement agreement that the City claimed was sealed by a federal court. On 3/16/2018, the NJ Supreme Court denied Bayonne’s application for an emergency stay of the trial court’s disclosure order. “Court decision Read More …
Following an Appellate Court’s 12/12/2017 ruling that a Jackson resident’s OPRA request was not overly broad, reversing the lower court’s ruling in Wronko v. Jackson Township, the Township Council voted to pay $30K in legal fees to settle the complaint. The lower court ruling noted that the request could result in the production of a Read More …
The City of Bayonne told The Jersey Journal that a settlement agreement involving a police excessive force lawsuit had been sealed by a federal judge and could not be released. The news outlet filed an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) complaint in Superior Court. The OPRA judge didn’t rule for or against release, but had Read More …
A Vernon Township (Sussex County) resort has asked a court to block release of bankruptcy records related to its settlement with the Vernon Township Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) over the resort’s $26 million sewer debt. Under the proposed agreement before the court, some financial records would even be off limits to elected officials, and records Read More …
(UPDATE 2/2/17): In what may be the first GRC complaint filed against the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey since it became subject to OPRA in June 2015, the GRC ruled on Jan. 31, 2017 that the Authority violated OPRA by seeking “at least 3 weeks” to review a request (that was ignored Read More …