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The below articles summarize the continued costs to New Jersey of losing OPRA cases. The total is over $900,000 from 2012-2016 alone. That figure is the amount reimbursed to prevailing plaintiffs’ attorneys — it doesn’t even include the state’s own legal costs. Non-disclosure of records, or receiving no response at all in some cases, is commonplace Read More …
From January 2012 through March 4, 2016, the State had to reimburse over $1 million to successful plaintiffs for their legal fees in 54 cases involving requests for records. That taxpayer-funded tab doesn’t even include defense and other costs. -NJFOG — NBCPhiladelphia.com “New Jersey Taxpayers Pay the Price for Christie Withholding Public Records” by Josh Cornfield March Read More …