Copies of email logs for the Board President and Head of Human Resources
Dear Westwood Regional School District,
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 forward this request to the records custodian. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.
Records requested:
Copies of email logs for the Westwood Regional School District Board President, the Superintendent (and/or acting Superintendent), and the Head of Human Resources (including time/date, sender, recipient, and subject line) between the dates of May 1, 2023 and October 10, 2023 to be sent in a PDF document.
Per the NJ Supreme Court ruling in Paff vs. Township of Galloway, 2017, this is a valid request.
Yours faithfully,
Uilleam Whitedale
Hi Uilleam Whitedale,
Your search revealed over 38,000 emails. If you wish to continue this
search an assessed fee will be applied and a deposit will be required to
proceed. Please let me know how you wish to continue.
Thank You,
Keith A. Rosado
Keith A. Rosado
School Business Administrator / Board Secretary
Westwood Regional School District
701 Ridgewood Road
Township of Washington, NJ 07676
Office: 201-664-0880 x2004
Fax: 201-664-7642
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 1:49 PM Uilleam Whitedale
<[2][OPRA #54310 email]> wrote:
Dear Westwood Regional School District,
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
forward this request to the records custodian. Please acknowledge
receipt of this message.
Records requested:
Copies of email logs for the Westwood Regional School District
Board President, the Superintendent (and/or acting Superintendent), and
the Head of Human Resources (including time/date, sender, recipient, and
subject line) between the dates of May 1, 2023 and October 10, 2023 to
be sent in a PDF document.
Per the NJ Supreme Court ruling in Paff vs. Township of Galloway, 2017,
this is a valid request.
Yours faithfully,
Uilleam Whitedale
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Dear Keith Rosado,
Thank you for your response.
Please restrict the search parameters to email logs sent by the President of the WWRSD Board and the Head of Human Resources between May 1st, 2023 and July 1st, 2023.
Yours sincerely,
Uilleam Whitedale
Dear Keith Rosado,
In addition, I am requesting said info as a PDF document.
Thank you,
Uilleam Whitedale
Dear Keith Rosado,
I am still waiting for a response to modify my OPRA request to:
Copies of email logs for the Westwood Regional School District sent by the Board President and the Head of Human Resources (including time/date, sender, recipient, and subject line) between the dates of May 1, 2023 and July 1st, 2023 to be sent in a PDF document.
Surely they did not send 38,000 e-mails within a 2-month period.
Per the NJ Supreme Court ruling in Paff vs. Township of Galloway, 2017, this is a valid request.
Please advise.
Yours faithfully,
Uilleam Whitedale
Dear Keith Rosado,
This is a second attempt at clarification. I did not request new information, only a limited version of the original OPRA request search parameters. Hence, the request is still valid and less disruptive. You have not responded and are long past due.
Copies of email logs for the Westwood Regional School District sent by the Board President and the Head of Human Resources (including time/date, sender, recipient, and subject line) between the dates of May 1, 2023 and July 1st, 2023 to be sent in a PDF document.
Per the NJ Supreme Court ruling in Paff vs. Township of Galloway, 2017, this is a valid request
Yours sincerely,
Uilleam Whitedale
Uilleam Whitedale,
Just for clarification we do not have an "email log" I can only supply
you with emails. We will rerun the search with the updated parameters. I
will reach out with the outcome of the results.
Thank You,
Keith A. Rosado
Keith A. Rosado
School Business Administrator / Board Secretary
Westwood Regional School District
701 Ridgewood Road
Township of Washington, NJ 07676
Office: 201-664-0880 x2004
Fax: 201-664-7642
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On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 5:18 PM Uilleam Whitedale
<[2][OPRA #54310 email]> wrote:
Dear Keith Rosado,
I am still waiting for a response to modify my OPRA request to:
Copies of email logs for the Westwood Regional School District sent by
the Board President and the Head of Human Resources (including
time/date, sender, recipient, and subject line) between the dates of May
1, 2023 and July 1st, 2023 to be sent in a PDF document.
Surely they did not send 38,000 e-mails within a 2-month period.
Per the NJ Supreme Court ruling in Paff vs. Township of Galloway, 2017,
this is a valid request.
Please advise.
Yours faithfully,
Uilleam Whitedale
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Hi Uilleam Whitedale,
Your search revealed over 38,000 emails. If you wish to continue this
search an assessed fee will be applied and a deposit will be required
to
proceed. Please let me know how you wish to continue.
Thank You,
Keith A. Rosado
Keith A. Rosado
School Business Administrator / Board Secretary
Westwood Regional School District
701 Ridgewood Road
Township of Washington, NJ 07676
Office: 201-664-0880 x2004
Fax: 201-664-7642
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Dear Keith Rosado,
Thank you for replying.
I am presuming that the way you're conducting the search is by ELS. The list of emails produced by the search is the "email log," i.e. a listing of messages: date sent, sender, recipient. If it's not an ELS and you're logging into the email accounts, the emails listed under "sent" between the dates requested suffices as an "email log."
Yours sincerely,
Uilleam Whitedale
Dear Westwood Regional School District,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Open Public Records Act reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Westwood Regional School District's handling of my OPRA request 'Copies of email logs for the Board President and Head of Human Resources'.
I made an OPRA request to the District on October 19th, 2023 seeking email logs for the Board president, the Head of Human resources, and the Superintendent between specified dates.
Mr. Rosado responded on October 25th stating that the search returned 38,000 emails. He made no mention at that time of not having "email logs." I responded on the 25th asking Mr. Rosado to restrict the dates of the search parameters and to only search for emails sent by the Board president and the Head of Human Resources, as it is not possible that two people produced an overly excessive number of sent emails within a 2-month period. I did not request new information.
As Rosado did not respond, I again reached out on November 9th. He still did not respond, in violation of the Open Records Act. On November 16th, I attempted once more to clarify my request for Mr. Rosado.
Mr. Rosado, finally, replied on November 17th and stated that he would run the search again, but did not have "email logs." I responded to him, clarifying that "email logs" are the search results (header information, dates, etc.) either from whatever ELS he is using or simply from the sent tab within the email accounts. Mr. Rosado cannot possibly have individually reviewed 38,000 emails. Hence, he has an accessible list of the emails available.
It is now November 29th and Mr. Rosado has not responded, once again in violation of the law. It would appear Mr. Rosado is purposefully attempting to obscure publicly-owned documents or is incapable or unwilling to perform his duties in accordance with the law. My OPRA request is legitimate under Paff vs. Galloway. There is no substantive difference between copying emails and copying "email logs/sent records." They are preexisting and do not require the creation of a new document. Supplying the requested information in a PDF should have taken no more than 20 minutes, even with review (as logs/headers do not contain sensitive information) and other local governmental organizations are complying or have complied with similar requests.
This request is related to legal matters and is time sensitive. If my request is not fulfilled in a reasonable amount of time after this internal review request, I will report the District and Mr. Rosado to the Government Records Council.
A full history of my OPRA request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://opramachine.com/request/copies_o...
Yours faithfully,
Uilleam Whitedale
Hi Uilleam Whitedale,
Sorry for the delay, the communication string got misfiled in my
mailbox.
Your search revealed 6,335 emails. If you wish to continue this
search an assessed fee will be applied and a deposit will be required to
proceed. Please let me know how you wish to continue.
Thank You,
Keith A. Rosado
Keith A. Rosado
School Business Administrator / Board Secretary
Westwood Regional School District
701 Ridgewood Road
Township of Washington, NJ 07676
Office: 201-664-0880 x2004
Fax: 201-664-7642
[1][Westwood Regional School District request email]
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us immediately by reply via email message or by telephone and delete the
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 11:31 AM Uilleam Whitedale
<[2][OPRA #54310 email]> wrote:
Dear Westwood Regional School District,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Open Public Records Act
reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Westwood Regional School
District's handling of my OPRA request 'Copies of email logs for the
Board President and Head of Human Resources'.
I made an OPRA request to the District on October 19th, 2023 seeking
email logs for the Board president, the Head of Human resources, and the
Superintendent between specified dates.
Mr. Rosado responded on October 25th stating that the search returned
38,000 emails. He made no mention at that time of not having "email
logs." I responded on the 25th asking Mr. Rosado to restrict the dates
of the search parameters and to only search for emails sent by the Board
president and the Head of Human Resources, as it is not possible that
two people produced an overly excessive number of sent emails within a
2-month period. I did not request new information.
As Rosado did not respond, I again reached out on November 9th. He
still did not respond, in violation of the Open Records Act. On November
16th, I attempted once more to clarify my request for Mr. Rosado.
Mr. Rosado, finally, replied on November 17th and stated that he would
run the search again, but did not have "email logs." I responded to him,
clarifying that "email logs" are the search results (header information,
dates, etc.) either from whatever ELS he is using or simply from the
sent tab within the email accounts. Mr. Rosado cannot possibly have
individually reviewed 38,000 emails. Hence, he has an accessible list of
the emails available.
It is now November 29th and Mr. Rosado has not responded, once again in
violation of the law. It would appear Mr. Rosado is purposefully
attempting to obscure publicly-owned documents or is incapable or
unwilling to perform his duties in accordance with the law. My OPRA
request is legitimate under Paff vs. Galloway. There is no substantive
difference between copying emails and copying "email logs/sent records."
They are preexisting and do not require the creation of a new document.
Supplying the requested information in a PDF should have taken no more
than 20 minutes, even with review (as logs/headers do not contain
sensitive information) and other local governmental organizations are
complying or have complied with similar requests.
This request is related to legal matters and is time sensitive. If my
request is not fulfilled in a reasonable amount of time after this
internal review request, I will report the District and Mr. Rosado to
the Government Records Council.
A full history of my OPRA request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[3]https://opramachine.com/request/copies_o...
Yours faithfully,
Uilleam Whitedale
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