Code Violation List Request
Dear Scotch Plains 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-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 use the requested government records for a commercial purpose (Real Estate).
I AM NOT seeking records in connection with a legal proceeding.
Records requested:
Code Violation List Request for 02/04/2025 to 03/06/2025. I kindly request a list of all UNRESOLVED or OPEN code violations (please do not include closed violations) for all properties in the city during this time period, specifically related to property maintenance, structural issues, and weeds. Please include descriptions of the violations, property addresses, and violation dates. I also prefer for the document to be sent here in OPRA not in my email (sometimes it does not appear in my inbox). Thank you so much!
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,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth:
The Township of Scotch Plains received your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request on March 6 , 2025. As such, the fourteen (14) business day deadline to respond to your request is March 26, 2025.
Thank you.
Maryann Matteo
OPRA Compliance Clerk
Township of Scotch Plains
430 Park Avenue
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
908.322.6700 (office) ext. 213
908.322.1663 (fax)
[Scotch Plains Township request email]
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Elizabeth:
The Township of Scotch Plains received your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request on March 6, 2025. As such, the fourteen (14) business day deadline to respond to your request is March 26, 2025. This response to your request is being provided to you on the same business day after the custodian’s receipt of said request.
Request: For Code Violation List: See attached OPRA Request Email.
Response: Included in attached pdf entitled “OPRA – Elizabeth 3.6.25 - Code Violation List” please find document provided as responsive to your request.
END OF REQUESTED ITEMS
By this letter of response, the Township of Scotch Plains will consider your OPRA request received on March 6, 2025, complete unless otherwise informed.
If you have any questions, please contact the Violations Department at 908-322-6700 ext. 303.
Thank you.
Maryann Matteo
OPRA Compliance Clerk
Township of Scotch Plains
430 Park Avenue
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
908.322.6700 (office) ext. 213
908.322.1663 (fax)
[Scotch Plains Township request email]
NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY
This message, including any prior messages and attachments, may contain advisory, consultative and/or deliberative material, confidential information or privileged communications of the Township of Scotch Plains. Access to this message by anyone other than the sender and the intended recipient(s) is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or not taken in reliance on it, without the expressed written consent of the sender is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should not save, scan, transmit, print, use or disseminate this message or any information contained in this message in any way and you should promptly delete or destroy this message and all copies of it. Please notify the sender by return e-mail if you have received this message in error.