OPRA-Req-23-0998
Date Received: 8/3/2023
Status: Received
Applicant: Therese Soriano
Address:
10 Jake Brown Rd
Matawan Matawan 07747
Information Requested: All open/ closed permits and any open
violations for the property located at 10 Jake Brown Rd, Matawan,
NJ 07747

Assignments

RESPONSE:-DENIED

Your request is denied for the following reasons:

OPRA is not intended as a research tool litigants may use to force
government officials to identify and siphon useful information.
Under OPRA, agencies are required to disclose only "identifiable"
governmental documents not otherwise exempt. Wholesale requests
for general information which have to be collated, analyzed and
compiled by the entity are not required. This governmental
custodian is not required to conduct research, analyze, collate,
compile and/or correlate data from existing government records. A
blanket request for all documents is not a document request
pursuant to OPRA and existing case law. MAG Entm't , LLC v. Div of
ABC, 375 N.J. Super. 534,546-549 (App. Div. 2005), "under OPRA,
agencies are required to disclose only 'identifiable' government
records and not otherwise exempt.. In short, OPRA does not
countenance open-ended searches of agency's files" Id. (emphasis
added). Bent v. Stafford Police Dep't. 381 N.J. Super. 30,37 (App.
Div. 2005), N.J. Builders Ass'n v. N.J. Council on Affordable
Hous., 390 N.J. Super. 166, 180 ( App. Div. 2007); Schuler v.
Borough of Bloomsbury, GRC Complaint No. 2007-151 (February 2009).

2. A request for a "file" "all" "any and all" etc. is invalid
because it represents a blanket request for a class of various,
unidentifiable records and constitutes a broad and unclear
request. See Morgano v Essex Cnty. Prosecutors's Office, GRC
Complaint No. 2007-190 (February 2008); Nunley v N.J. State Parole
Bd., GRC Complaint No. 2013 -335 (July 2014); Redden v. Cape May
Cnty. Prosecutor's Office GRC Complaint No. 2007-206 (September
2009); Bragg v. N.J. Dept of Corrections, GRC Complaint No.
2010-145 (March2011); Bradley-Williams v. Atlantic Cnty. Jail, GRC
Complaint No. 2011-232 (December 2012); Torian v. N.J. State
Parole Bd., GRC Complaint No. 2013-245 (June 2014)
No. 2013-245 (June 2014)
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