2024 Press Releases, Advisories, and Invites
Charlie Kratovil made this OPRA request to Manville Borough as part of a batch sent to 50 authorities Automatic anti-spam measures are in place for this older request. Please let us know if a further response is expected or if you are having trouble responding.
Dear Manville Borough,
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-5(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:
Please provide copies of all press releases, press advisories, and other invitations or announcements sent to members of the press by the Mayor's Office, governing body, or municipal departments (including the police) during the year 2024.
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.
Thanks, as always, for your assistance with my requests.
Yours faithfully,
Charlie Kratovil
Good monring,
The Borough is processing your request.
Please note, our Police Department maintains a Police Blotter on
its website. While this is not sent to "members of the media" it
may be someo f the inmformation you are seeking. The blotters for
November and December as still posted here
https://www.manvillepd.org/blotter/258-d...
and here
https://www.manvillepd.org/blotter/257-n...
The Borough does need clarification for a portion of your request.
Your request includes "other invitations and announcements sent to
members of the press"
Unlike Press Release and Press Advisory which suffciently specifc
descriptors because these types of records often have these title
incorpoarted into them, "other invitations and announcements" is
open to interpretation which would require the Records Custodian
to conduct an analysis and make a decision if a record is
responsive. That analysis is research which we are not required to
do. Can you provide more infomation on what these records
encompass and or provide specific examples? The NJ Courts have
ruled that requests cannout be open ended requests for all
documents and while you narrow your request to 2024, there is too
much gret area to no with certainty where our search should begin
and end for these items. Specificall the courts have said:
"In this regard, OPRA "is not intended as a research tool . . . to
force government officials to identify and siphon useful
information." Id. at 546,868 A.2d 1067. In other words, a records
custodian is not required "to conduct research among its records.
and correlate data from various government records in the
custodian's possession." Id. at 546-47, 868 A.2d 1067. (internal
citation omitted). To qualify under OPRA then, the request must
reasonably identify a record and not generally data, information
or statistics. Nor does OPRA "authorize a party to make a blanket
request for every document" a public agency has on file. See
Gannett, supra, 379 N.J.Super. at213, 877 A.2d 330 . Rather, a
party requesting access to a public record under OPRA must
specifically describe the document sought. Ibid.; see also MAG
Entm't, supra, 375 N.J.Super. at 546-49, 868 A.2d 1067 . OPRA
operates to make identifiable government records "readily
accessible for inspection, copying, or examination." N.J.S.A.
47:1A-1. As such, a proper request under OPRA must ide ntify with
reasonable clarity those documents that are desired, and a party
cannot satisfy this requirement by simply requesting all of an
agency's documents. OPRA does not authorize unbridled searches of
an agency's property. See Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381
N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005)."
Additionally, please define "members of the press" Can you list
specific individuals or entities or sub sections thereof? Here
again, its not the role or responsibility of the Record Custodian
to figure out what your requestings or perform an analysis to
determine if a record is or is not responsive.
OPRA-Req.02.25.0044
Date Received: 2/24/2025
Status: Approved for Data Collection
Applicant: Charlie Kratovil
Information Requested: Please provide copies of all press
releases, press advisories, and other invitations or announcements
sent to members of the press by the Mayor's Office, governing
body, or municipal departments (including the police) during the
year 2024.
[1]SDL Portal page for OPRA Request
Spatial Data Logic 2025
References
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Good afternoon,
Attached are the only press releases issued in 2024 from any of
our departments.
Should your clarification reveal the need to provide additional
documents we will do so at that time. Otherwise, this request is
considered fullfiled
OPRA-Req.02.25.0044
Date Received: 2/24/2025
Status: Approved for Data Collection
Applicant: Charlie Kratovil
Information Requested: Please provide copies of all press
releases, press advisories, and other invitations or announcements
sent to members of the press by the Mayor's Office, governing
body, or municipal departments (including the police) during the
year 2024.
[1]SDL Portal page for OPRA Request
Spatial Data Logic 2025
References
Visible links
1. https://u131632.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click...