Backpack System List Request
Dear Manalapan-Englishtown Board of Education,
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:
MERS Backpack System Email List
Yours faithfully,
Jared L. Buchansky
Dear Manalapan-Englishtown Board of Education,
Hi, i have submitted this request on October 30th and yesterday was the deadline for a response. I still have not received any response. I am urging this request be processed expeditiously today. I have put in for an internal review as well.
Thank You Again for your understanding.
Yours faithfully,
Jared Buchansky
Mr. Buchansky,
I apologize but I first saw your email requesting information under OPRA
just Tuesday when you sent the follow-up. We're reviewing your request
with our Board Attorney and will get back to you as soon as possible.
Dear Manalapan-Englishtown Board of Education,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Open Public Records Act reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Manalapan-Englishtown Board of Education's handling of my OPRA request 'Backpack System List Request'.
[ GIVE DETAILS ABOUT YOUR COMPLAINT HERE ]
This request is going on 2 weeks now. I am expecting a response ASAP.
A full history of my OPRA request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://opramachine.com/request/backpack...
Yours faithfully,
Jared Buchansky
Dear Mr. Buchansky:
Please accept this correspondence in reply to your recent request for
records. Specifically, you submitted a request through OPRA Machine for
“MERS Backpack System Email List,” which constitutes the email addresses
of parents or guardians of current District students. Such information is
obtained by the District for the purpose of communication with
parents/guardians about their children and school-related matters.
OPRA provides that a public entity cannot produce a record when a
citizen's personal information with which the public entity has been
entrusted when disclosure thereof would violate the citizen's reasonable
expectation of privacy. See Burnett v. County of Bergen, 198 N.J. 408
(2009). Parents and guardians who submit their personal email addresses
to the District have an expectation that those email addresses will not be
subject to public inspection or release pursuant to OPRA.
Additionally, OPRA specifically protects as confidential any record
otherwise protected by law, rule, or regulation. N.J.S.A. 47:1A-9. In
that regard, the record you request is protected by regulations of the
Department of Education pertaining to student records, including, but not
limited to N.J.A.C. 6A:32-7.1 et seq.
Accordingly, because parents and guardians have a reasonable expectation
of privacy that their email addresses are not open to the public and are
otherwise protected by the New Jersey Administrative Code, the District
cannot produce those records as you requested.
Thank you.
Very truly yours,
Veronica Wolf
Business Administrator/Board Secretary
Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Schools
54 Main Street
Englishtown, NJ 07726
Phone: (732) 786-2514 Fax: (732) 786-2541
Dear Manalapan-Englishtown Board of Education,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Open Public Records Act reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Manalapan-Englishtown Board of Education's handling of my OPRA request 'Backpack System List Request'.
[ GIVE DETAILS ABOUT YOUR COMPLAINT HERE ]
Thank You for your response. In looking further into your denial i feel that this needs to be challenged. The cases that you are referencing does not equate to the response.
I am not making a request for actual names of people in which your response is stating we are. Regarding Burnett V County in 2009, the Supreme Court issued Burnett v County of Bergen, its first opinion analyzing OPRA's privacy provision. In Burnett, the court was faced with a request that sought access to millions of records which contained names, addresses and social security numbers. My request does not follow this precedence.
What i will refer you to is Middletown committeeman Tony Perry where his list of resident's email addresses were obtained correctly and the town of Middletown had to legally provide this information.
A full history of my OPRA request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://opramachine.com/request/backpack...
Yours faithfully,
Jared Buchansky
Dear Wolf, Veronica,
Thank You for your response. In looking further into your denial i feel that this needs to be challenged. The cases that you are referencing does not equate to the response.
I am not making a request for actual names of people in which your response is stating we are. Regarding Burnett V County in 2009, the Supreme Court issued Burnett v County of Bergen, its first opinion analyzing OPRA's privacy provision. In Burnett, the court was faced with a request that sought access to millions of records which contained names, addresses and social security numbers. My request does not follow this precedence.
What i will refer you to is Middletown committeeman Tony Perry where his list of resident's email addresses were obtained correctly and the town of Middletown had to legally provide this information.
Yours sincerely,
Jared Buchansky