Body Cam Footage Request
Dear Woodbridge 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:
Body cam footage from both officers responding to a disturbance call on new dover rd at around 9 pm yesterday 5/18.
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,
Brianna Chiriboga
Good morning,
*Please be advised that a search of our records, show no responsive
records with the information you provided.
Wholesale requests for general information to be analyzed, collated and
compiled by the responding government entity are not encompassed” within
the Open Public Records Act. See MAG Entertainment, LLC vs. Division of
Alcohol Beverage Control, 375, N.J. Super. 534, 549 (App. Div. 2005).
OPRA “is not intended as a research tool litigants may use to force
government officials to identify and siphon useful information.” Id. at
546; see also, Bent v. Stafford Twp. Police Dept., 381 N.J. Super. 30,
37-39 (App. Div. 2005) (noting that OPRA allows requests for specific
records, not requests for information, data or statistics).
This request is overly broad or vague so as to prevent identification of
the records sought; please clarify
-Thank you
Michelle LoGrande
Records Bureau
Records Clerk
1 Main Street
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
732-602-7390