Good afternoon,

 

Please see the below response from the Custodian of Records or Designee.

 

Please be advised, your request pursuant to the Open Public Records Act
cannot be fulfilled because we can neither confirm nor deny whether that
person is a client of this Agency. This response is produced because
either this person is not a client of the Agency, or because
confidentiality parameters prohibit the release of personal identifying
information of clients. Kindly refer and review N.J.A.C. 10:78-1.5,
N.J.A.C. 10:90-7.7, and N.J.A.C. 10:87-1.14(b), which is a sample of some
of the statutes which govern confidentiality in social service programs.

Please be further advised, informationally, any Client is permitted to
access and review their own file by contacting and requesting same from
the Agency.

Thank you for your kind attention to this matter.

 

Respectfully,

Ashley Hubler

Secretarial Assistant – Legal Department

Ocean County Board of Social Services

1027 Hooper Avenue

Toms River, NJ 08754

Phone: (732)505-3794 (Ext. 8794)

Fax: (732)240-3983

CONFIDENTIALITY/HIPAA NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is
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confidential and privileged and is not a public document. Any information
in this email identifying a client(s) of the Ocean County Board of Social
Services is confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or
distribution is prohibited. According to the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), OCBSS may disclose records for
treatment, payment and health care operations without an individual’s
authorization so long as only the minimum necessary information is
released. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not review,
transmit, copy, use or disseminate this email or any attachments and you
must immediately delete/destroy this email and any attachments. Please
immediately notify the sender by return email if you have received this
email in error. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

 

From: Anonymous Requestor
<[OPRA #68902 email]>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2024 2:31 PM
To: OCBSS <[Ocean County Board of Social Services request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Application for assistance

 

Dear Ocean County Board of Social Services,

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:

Application for assistance submitted by Faith Linnell in October-November
2024

Final determination letter denying assistance.

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,

Faith

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