2024-2025 Communications with the Borough of Pompton Lakes
Dear Civil Service Commission,
Please accept this electronic request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form or use a particular software platform to submit my request per NJSA 47:1A-6(f), which states that an email from a requestor including all of the information required on the adopted form shall suffice in place of a completed form as a valid government record request.
I HAVE NOT been convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of New Jersey, any other state, or the United States.
I WILL NOT use the requested government records for a commercial purpose.
I AM NOT seeking records in connection with a legal proceeding.
Records requested:
Communications (email and any other forms of contact) between January 1, 2024 and July 16, 2025, between the NJ CSC and the following Pompton Lakes borough employees: Michael Carelli, Derek Clark, and Anthony Rodriguez, regarding any level police testing, waivers, exemptions, and/or appeals for any member of the Pompton Lakes Police Department, current or former.
My preferred delivery method for response(s) to this request is by E-mail as attachments. Please confirm you have received this request. If you are not the custodian of records, please forward my request to that person and provide their email address to me for future reference.
Yours faithfully,
Martin Tall
Dear Civil Service Commission,
Is there an update on this OPRA request?
Thank you,
Martin Tall
Dear Civil Service Commission,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Open Public Records Act reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Civil Service Commission's handling of my OPRA request '2024-2025 Communications with the Borough of Pompton Lakes'.
This request has gone unanswered and I am still awaiting a reply from the CSC acknowledging receipt of this OPRA as well as the response to the query. Thank you for your attention.
A full history of my OPRA request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://opramachine.com/request/2024_202...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Tall
Good morning, Martin Tall,
This email serves to confirm receipt of your OPRA request, which was
received by the Commission on July 30, 2025, at 7:11 AM.
Please note that the Commission has no record of receiving an earlier
submission of this request on July 16, 2025, as indicated by the OPRA
machine website.
The Commission is currently reviewing your request and will respond
accordingly.
The OPRA Office
NJ Civil Service Commission
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Tall
<[1][OPRA #78502 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 7:11 AM
To: CSCCommunications [CSC] <[2][Civil Service Commission request email]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Internal review of OPRA request - 2024-2025
Communications with the Borough of Pompton Lakes
Dear Civil Service Commission,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Open Public Records Act
reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Civil Service Commission's
handling of my OPRA request '2024-2025 Communications with the Borough of
Pompton Lakes'.
This request has gone unanswered and I am still awaiting a reply from the
CSC acknowledging receipt of this OPRA as well as the response to the
query. Thank you for your attention.
A full history of my OPRA request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[3]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opra...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Tall
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[7]https://info.csc.nj.gov/PrivacyEmail, confirming in writing that you
deleted the e-mail(s)/attachment(s) and that you did not/will not further
use or disclose the information contained in the e-mail.
References
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2. mailto:[Civil Service Commission request email]
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4. mailto:[OPRA #78502 email]
5. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/opram...
6. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/opram...
7. https://info.csc.nj.gov/PrivacyEmail
Dear CSC-OPRArequest [CSC],
Thank you for your reply and acknowledgement. I appreciate your time.
Yours sincerely,
Martin Tall
Dear Martin Tall,
On July 30, 2025, pursuant to the Open Public Records Act (OPRA), N.J.S.A.
47:1A-1 et seq., you submitted an OPRA request to the Civil Service
Commission (Commission) for:
“Communications (email and any other forms of contact) between January 1,
2024 and July 16, 2025, between the NJ CSC and the following Pompton Lakes
borough employees: Michael Carelli, Derek Clark, and Anthony Rodriguez,
regarding any level police testing, waivers, exemptions, and/or appeals
for any member of the Pompton Lakes Police Department, current or former.”
Your request seeking communications is overbroad. Requests for
communications must “identify a specific job title or accounts to be
searched[.]” N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(g); see Burke v. Brandes, 429 N.J. Super.
169, 176-78 (App. Div. 2012). Your request fails to identify the specific
job title or accounts to be searched, and is thus overbroad and improper.
Accordingly, your request is denied.
The OPRA Office
NJ Civil Service Commission
From: CSC-OPRArequest [CSC]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 9:51 AM
To: [OPRA #78502 email]
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Internal review of OPRA request - 2024-2025
Communications with the Borough of Pompton Lakes
Good morning, Martin Tall,
This email serves to confirm receipt of your OPRA request, which was
received by the Commission on July 30, 2025, at 7:11 AM.
Please note that the Commission has no record of receiving an earlier
submission of this request on July 16, 2025, as indicated by the OPRA
machine website.
The Commission is currently reviewing your request and will respond
accordingly.
The OPRA Office
NJ Civil Service Commission
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Tall
<[1][OPRA #78502 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 7:11 AM
To: CSCCommunications [CSC] <[2][Civil Service Commission request email]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Internal review of OPRA request - 2024-2025
Communications with the Borough of Pompton Lakes
Dear Civil Service Commission,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Open Public Records Act
reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Civil Service Commission's
handling of my OPRA request '2024-2025 Communications with the Borough of
Pompton Lakes'.
This request has gone unanswered and I am still awaiting a reply from the
CSC acknowledging receipt of this OPRA as well as the response to the
query. Thank you for your attention.
A full history of my OPRA request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[3]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opra...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Tall
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Please use this UNIQUE email address for all replies to this request and
no other:
[4][OPRA #78502 email]
Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
[5]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opra...
View this OPRA request & responses online:
[6]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opra...
Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
be delayed.
If you find this service useful as an OPRA custodian, please ask your web
manager to link to us from your organisation's website.
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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail, including any attachments, may
include advisory, consultative and/or deliberative material and, if so, is
privileged and/or confidential and not a public document. Any information
in this e-mail identifying an employee subject to the jurisdiction of the
Civil Service Commission is confidential. If you received this e-mail in
error, you are not authorized to review, transmit, convert to hard copy,
copy, or in any way further use or disseminate this e-mail or any
attachments to it. You must immediately notify the sender and delete this
message. If the e-mail you received in error contained protected employee
information, you must also notify CSC's Privacy Officer immediately at
[7]https://info.csc.nj.gov/PrivacyEmail, confirming in writing that you
deleted the e-mail(s)/attachment(s) and that you did not/will not further
use or disclose the information contained in the e-mail.
References
Visible links
1. mailto:[OPRA #78502 email]
2. mailto:[Civil Service Commission request email]
3. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/opram...
4. mailto:[OPRA #78502 email]
5. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/opram...
6. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/opram...
7. https://info.csc.nj.gov/PrivacyEmail
Dear CSC-OPRArequest [CSC],
Thank you for the reply. I will submit a new request which specifies the above, so that the OPRA filing is refined.
Yours sincerely,
Martin Tall