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Tamar Lawful, RMC/CMR
Township Clerk
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East Brunswick, NJ 08816
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You must answer the required questions on the newly adopted OPRA Form as required by the state. Failure to do so will result in the denial of your request.

Tamar Lawful, RMC/CMR
Township Clerk
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Township of East Brunswick
Township Clerk's Office
1 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
(P): 732-390-6850
(F): 732-238-8848
Email: [email address]

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East Brunswick Township Public Records
Your record request #25-358 has been submitted successfully.

Thank you for submitting your Open Public Records Act (OPRA)
request!

You can expect to receive a response to your request for access
to government records within seven (7) business days after the
records custodian receives the request. Requests for a
“commercial purpose” have a fourteen (14) business day response
timeframe.

If the record you requested is not currently available or is in
storage, we will advise you when it can be made available and
provide the estimated cost of reproduction.

Thank you,

Records Custodian

Township of East Brunswick

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East Brunswick Township Public Records
A message was sent to you regarding record request #25-358:

Greetings,

This is in response to your Open Public Records Act (OPRA)
request for access to records.

Your request is denied as the request is overly broad, not
sufficiently clear, and requires research. The request here
would require a Department's records custodian to search
through a wide range of records and analyze which records
happen to be related to your request. This type of records
research is not required, and the request is therefore overly
broad (See Burnett, 415 N.J. Super. at 515-16).

OPRA makes identifiable government records readily accessible
for inspection, copying, or examination (Bent v. Twp. of
Stafford Police Dep't, 381 N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005).
Therefore, an OPRA request "must identify with reasonable
clarity those documents that are desired, and a party cannot
satisfy this requirement by simply requesting all of an
agency's documents” (Bent v. Twp. of Stafford Police Dep't, 381
N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005)). OPRA does not authorize
unbridled searches of an agency's property and "is not intended
as a research tool litigants may use to force government
officials to identify and siphon useful information" (Bent, 381
N.J. Super. at 37; MAG, 375 N.J. Super. at 543).

Therefore, requests can be denied that would require the
custodian "to manually search through all of the agency's
files, analyze, compile and collate the information contained
therein" (Id. at 549; see also Bart v. Passaic County Public
Hous. Agency, 406 N.J. Super. 445, 451 (App. Div. 2009).

Thank you,

Records Custodian

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East Brunswick Township Public Records
Record request #25-358 has been closed. The closure reason
supplied was:

Greetings,

Your request for records was denied.

Please explain which Minutes you seek to obtain. Kindly submit
a new OPRA request.

This OPRA request is now deemed answered and closed.

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