OPRA-Req-25-0517
Date Received: 11/24/2025
Status: Completed
Date Completed: 11/25/2025
Applicant: Emily Carter
Information Requested: 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:

Any and all BWC footage and police/arrest reports of Edward
Ciempola case numbers BT 2578 and BT 2579

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,
Emily Carter

Response: 11/25/25 - Please be advised that the records requested
are part of an "ongoing investigation" and, therefore, exempt from
release until the investigation is finalized. Please see the
explanation below regarding Criminal Investigative records. Please
check back with us in approximately 30 days to see if a
determination has been made on the status of this case and what
may be releaseable once that determination is confirmed.

Criminal Investigatory Records are exempt from disclosure whether
opened or closed pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1. Criminal
Investigatory Records include, but are not limited to:
police incident reports, criminal investigation reports,
statements or transcripts of statements, video in DVD, DVR, CD,
VCR, Cassette or any other type of electronic or physical format,
plates and photographs, fingerprint cards, lab reports and reports
by other experts, autopsy reports, recorded conversations,
evidence, record(s) turned over to law enforcement agencies from
victims - corporations - insurance companies -etc., documenting or
substantiating physical losses and the value of those losses as
well as any other document(s) used to substantiate or authenticate
criminal activity, etc., which are obtained during the course of
an investigation. Donna Janeczko v. New Jersey. Department of Law
and Public Safety, Division of Criminal Justice, Custodian of
Record, GRC Complaint Nos. 2002-79 & 2002-80 (June 2004); See also
Andrew Johnson/Press of Atlantic City. v. New Jersey. Division of
State Police, Custodian of Record, GRC Complaint No. 2004-46 (June
2004), Bent v. Township of St afford Police Dept, 381 N.J. Super.
30, 38-39 (App. Div. 2005), Akbar Na'im v. Union County.
Prosecutor's Office, Appellate Division, No. A-3481 -05,
unpublished opinion, January 23, 2007, Brewer v. NJ Department of
Law and Public Safety, Division of NJ State Police, GRC Complaint
Number 2006-204 (October 2007), Thomas Parker v. Essex County.
Prosecutor's Office, GRC Complaint number 2009-225 (October 26,
201 0) and see also State of New Jersey, Executive Order #69,
Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

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