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UPDATE (8/8/2017): The NJ Supreme Court issued its decision on August 3, 2017. NJFOG is working on a summary of the ruling and will post it soon. UPDATE (5/2/2016): The NJ Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Firemen’s Association’s appeal of the Appellate Division’s ruling that only requestors and not custodians can file an Read More …
UPDATE (7/11/2017): On July 11, 2017, the New Jersey Supreme Court released its decision in North Jersey Media v. Twp of Lyndhurst. The mixed ruling reverses the Appellate Court in part but also allows agencies to withhold some records under certain conditions. Read our summary here for more detail. UPDATE (11/9/16): The NJ Supreme Read More …
On November 6, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court agreed to hear Bloomfield Township’s (Essex County) appeal of a May 13, 2015 Appellate Division ruling that required the Township to provide an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) requestor with 14 hours of video taken by a stationary camera located on the back of Bloomfield’s municipal Read More …
Ever file an OPRA request for email correspondence and feel there is stuff you’re not getting? Wouldn’t it be nice to see a log of email communications to know for sure? A trial court ruled the log is a public document, but the town appealed, and now things are heating up on both sides. Read More …
Case Name: Patricia Gilleran v. Township of Bloomfield Docket Numbers: NJ Supreme Court 076114, Appellate Court A-15-15, Trial Court ESX-L-3459-14 County / Vicinage: Essex Filing Date: May 14, 2014 Judge: Justice LaVecchia authored the NJ Supreme Court’s 4 to 2 majority decision. Status: Remanded to the trial court for the resolving of the common law right-to-access Read More …