The Wall Township Clerk’s Office is in receipt of your OPRA request.  Please be advised that the records you seek are held within the Police Department.

I have forwarded your request to [email address].  All further correspondence should be directed to the Police Department.

Please be advised that your request went to our junk mail.

Thank you

Roberta M. Lang, RMC, CMR
Township Clerk, Registar of Vital Statistics
2700 Allaire Road Wall NJ 07719
(732)449-8444 extension 2200
Visit us at http://wallnj.com/211/Clerks-Office

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The Township of Wall Police Department’s (“Police Department”) Records
Division received your Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) request dated
March 22, 2024 on April 2, 2024.  As such, the seven (7) business day
deadline to respond to your request is April 11, 2024. The Police
Department is responding to your request within seven (7) business days
after receipt of your request as required by New Jersey law.  N.J.S.A.
47:1A-5.

For ease of reference, your request seeks the following:

            Summonses issued for prostitution for the month of February
2024

With respect to your request, the Police Department conducted a good faith
search for responsive records.  The responsive records can be downloaded
here:  [1]https://we.tl/t-6WfMvmGfWY  Please note the link is active for
seven (7) days.  The records have been redacted to remove information that
pertains to a citizen’s personal information. N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 provides
that “a public agency has a responsibility and an obligation to safeguard
from public access a citizen’s personal information with which it has been
entrusted when disclosure thereof would violate the citizen’s reasonable
expectation of privacy.”  This includes social security numbers, unlisted
telephone numbers, driver’s license numbers, personal email addresses,
dates of birth, home addresses, SBI numbers, etc. See e.g., N.J.S.A.
47:1A-5 (“Prior to allowing access to any government record, the custodian
thereof shall redact from that record any information which discloses the
social security number, credit card number, unlisted telephone number, or
driver license number of any person[.]”); Mawhinney v. Egg Harbor City
Police Department (Atlantic), GRC Complaint No. 2015-85 (2016) (no
challenge made to the redaction of social security and SBI numbers);
Herron v. New Jersey Department of Education, GRC Complaint No. 2011-268
and 2011-269 (2012) (finding that the records custodian lawfully denied
access to dates of birth); Wolosky v. Somerset Cty., A-1024-15T4, 2017 WL
1179852, at *3 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. Mar. 30, 2017) (stating that
“home addresses do not directly relate to the ‘core concern’ of OPRA,
which is to allow citizens access to records pertaining to the transaction
of government business”). 

Your OPRA request is now deemed answered and closed. In the event of a
clarification or appeal, the Police Department reserves the right to raise
any other ground for denial not raised in this response. The failure of
the Police Department to assert an exception or privilege at this time
does not act as a waiver of any grounds for denial. Thank you for your
professional courtesies and attention to this matter.

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