Any contracts, notices, or billing invoices in re: Bay Lea Golf Course Credit card processing.
Dear Toms River Township,
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: Any invoices, bills, executed contracts, proposed contracts, late payment notices, cancellation notices, electronic mail, or interoffice memos that pertain to credit card processing at Bay Lea Golf Course from 1/1/2026 to present.
Please also include any inter-office communications of any kind involving the credit card processor at Bay Lea from 1/1/2026 to present.
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,
Scott Reich
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Dear Scott Reich:
Thank you for your interest in public records of Toms River Township. Your
request has been received and is being processed in accordance with the
New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA). Your request was received in
this office on 4/14/2026 and given the reference number R031902-041426 for
tracking purposes.
Records Requested: via opramachine:
Records requested: Any invoices, bills, executed contracts, proposed
contracts, late payment notices, cancellation notices, electronic mail, or
interoffice memos that pertain to credit card processing at Bay Lea Golf
Course from 1/1/2026 to present.
Your request will be forwarded to the relevant department(s) to locate the
information you seek and to determine the volume and any costs associated
with satisfying your request. You will be contacted about the availability
and/or provided with copies of the records in question. PLEASE NOTE: The
State Public Information Act does not require a governmental body to
create new information, to do legal research, or to answer questions.
You can monitor the progress of your request at the link below and you'll
receive an email when your request has been completed. Again, thank you
for using the Open Public Records Center.
Toms River Township
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Good afternoon,
The department responding to your request needs additional time. Your new
due date is 5/4/2026.
Thank you
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Hello,
After discussion, the department handling your request has no way of
looking up the document you are requesting based on the information you
provided.
Please be advised that OPRA is a request for a specific government
record. 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 on a given
topic. See Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381 N.J.Super. 30, 37
(App. Div. 2005). OPRA is not a research tool to force government
entities to identify and siphon off information. See Bent v. Stafford
Police Department, 381 N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). Your request
does not identify a specific government record but rather picks a topic
and then asks the Township to research whether or not any of these records
exist. As such, your request is an invalid OPRA request. 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).
Please clarify your request to identify specifically what record you are
seeking. As previously noted, Township's are not required to conduct
research. Please note requests for "any and all" records are not valid.
Please see MAG Entm't LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J.
Super. 534 (App. Div. 2005).
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