CUSTODIAN CLARIFICATION REQUEST TO OPRA REQUEST 26-2026
 
January 13, 2026
 
Your request: A digital list of all active employees hired by the County
of Atlantic.
Please include their:
Job title
Department they work in
Hire date
Union affiliation
Base salary and overtime pay.

Please include full time staff, part time staff, and,
temporarily/seasonally employed workers.
 
At this time, your request is overly broad and unclear, and I am therefore
requesting clarification. Your request is overly broad, unclear and fails
to specify the documents you are seeking with particularity and would
require the custodian to research which documents are responsive. 
Currently, your request is for a class of various documents rather than a
request for a specific identifiable government record and OPRA does not
require custodians to research files to discern which records may be
responsive to a request.  The request you have submitted fails to identify
with reasonable clarity the specific government records sought, as is
required by Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381 N.J.Super. 30, 37
(App. Div.  2005). The New Jersey Superior Court has held that “OPRA … is
not intended as a research tool litigants may use to force government
officials to identify and siphon useful information.  Rather, OPRA simply
operates to make identifiable government records ‘readily accessible for
inspection, copying, or examination.’  N.J.S.A. § 47:1A-1.” MAG
Entertainment, LLC v. Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J.
Super. 534, 546 (App. Div. 2005).  In short, OPRA does not countenance
open-ended searches of an agency’s files.”  (Emphasis added.)  Id. at
549.  Further, in Bent, the Appellate Division held that a proper request
under OPRA 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.”  Please identify with reasonable clarity
the time period for the overtime pay documents that you are seeking on or
before January 22, 2026.
Sincerely,
 
Giuseppina Vetrano
Atlantic County Dept. of Law
County Counsel Office
1333 Atlantic Avenue, 8th Floor
Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401
Phone:  (609) 345-6700, ext. 2505
Fax:      (609) 343-2373
Email: [email address]

CUSTODIAN REPONSE TO OPRA REQUEST 26-2026
 
January 22, 2026 
 
You have submitted an Open Public Records Request and have indicated your
preferred method of delivery is email.
 
Your request: ***see attached below***
 
Attached please find the documents responsive to your request. Please note
that a request for clarification regarding employee overtime pay received
no response, therefore the attached document does not include overtime pay
information.
 
 
Thank you.
 
Giuseppina Vetrano
Atlantic County Dept. of Law
1333 Atlantic Avenue., 8th Floor
Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401
Phone:  (609) 345-6700, ext. 2505
Fax:      (609) 343-2373
 
 
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from the Department of Law of Atlantic County is privileged and
confidential and is intended for the sole use of the persons or entities
who are the addressees. If you are not an intended recipient of this
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it contains is strictly prohibited. If you have received this
communication in error, please immediately contact the Department of Law
at (609) 343-2363 to arrange for the return of this information.

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From: ResidentOfAtlanticCounty
<[OPRA #85819 email]>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2026 12:41 PM
To: OPRA requests at Atlantic County <[Atlantic County request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - 2026 Employee Names, Titles, and Salaries
 
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Dear Atlantic County,

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:

A digital list of all active employees hired by the County of Atlantic.
Please include their:
Job title
Department they work in
Hire date
Union affiliation
Base salary and overtime pay.

Please include full time staff, part time staff, and,
temporarily/seasonally employed workers.

I understand that records cannot be created so please send me the closest
record in similarity to my request or compile separate lists as needed.
Thank you!

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,

ResidentOfAtlanticCounty

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