All emails sent and Received by Councilman Gregory Wojyn
Dear Englishtown Borough,
This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.
Records requested:
All emails sent and received by Councilman Gregory Wojyn with full body of text, subject line, and header information including recipients, email addresses, and time stamps, for the time period of June 1, 2022 through September 15, 2022. Please include all known email aliases that redirect to him, his title, or that he has access to in any official capacity.
Yours faithfully,
C.U.
Yours faithfully,
Clifton Union
The Borough of Englishtown received your Open Public Records Act (OPRA)
request on September 28, 2022. As such, the seven (7) business day
deadline to respond to your request is October 7, 2022.
Your request sought access to the following:
All emails sent and received by Councilman Gregory Wojyn with full body of
text, subject line, and header information including recipients, email
addresses, and time stamps, for the time period of June 1, 2022 through
September 15, 2022. Please include all known email aliases that redirect
to him, his title, or that he has access to in any official capacity..
Pursuant to Elcavage v. West Milford Township (Passaic) the New Jersey
Government Records Council held that “an OPRA request for an email or
emails shall focus upon the following characteristics:
· Content/subject
· Specific date/range of dates
· Sender/Recipient
Currently your request does not indicate all of the characteristics
required other than timeframe. This request does not identify specific
government records. As such, your request is an invalid OPRA request and
is denied. When a request is “complex” because it fails to specifically
identify the documents sought, then that request is not “encompassed” by
OPRA. See New Jersey Builders Association v. New Jersey Council on
Affordable Housing, 390 N.J.Super. 166, 180 (App. Div. 2007). 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. See Bent v. Stafford Police
Department, 381 N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). If your request for
access to a government record has been denied or unfilled within the seven
(7) business days required by law, you have a right to challenge the
decision by the Borough of Englishtown to deny access. At your option, you
may either institute a proceeding in the Superior Court of New Jersey or
file a complaint with the Government Records Council (GRC) by completing
the Denial of Access Complaint Form. You may contact the GRC by toll-free
telephone at 866-850-0511, by mail at P.O. Box 819, Trenton, NJ, 08625, by
e-mail at [email address], or at their web site at
www.state.nj.us/grc. The GRC can also answer other questions about the
law. All questions regarding complaints filed in Superior Court should be
directed to the Court Clerk in your County.
Gretchen McCarthy, RMC, CMR, QPA
Municipal Clerk, RVS
Borough of Englishtown
15 Main Street
Englishtown, NJ 07726
[1]www.englishtownnj.com
[2]https://www.facebook.com/EnglishtownNJ/