Early warning directive # 2018-3 meta data
Dear Marlboro Township,
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:
I would like the time and date the early warning data was placed on to the marlboro township police website.
I would like the time and date the name Lord was inputted into the state police data base by the internal affairs office of the marlboro township police department.
Yours faithfully,
R Lord
Mr. Lord,
We received your OPRA Request Today 10/7/19.
Judith Sham
Records Supervisor
Marlboro Township Police
1979 Township Drive
Marlboro, NJ 07746
732-536-0100 EXT. 1423
[email address]
R. Lord
OPRA was enacted to permit a citizen to request and receive non-exempt “government records” from a municipality or other public entity, such as the Township of Marlboro. “Government records” is defined as “any paper, written or printed book, document, drawing, map, plan, photograph, microfilm, data processed or image processed document, information stored or maintained electronically or by sound-recording or in a similar device, or any copy thereof, that has been made, maintained or kept on file in the course of ... official business ... or that has been received in the course of ... official business ....” N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1. OPRA is not intended as a research tool to force government officials to identify and siphon useful information. MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J.Super. 534, 546 (App.Div.2005). Rather, OPRA simply operates to make identifiable government records “reasonably accessible for inspection, copying, or examination.” N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1. Simply, put, OPRA only allows requests for records, not requests for information. MAG Entertainment at 546-549.
Respectfully,
Judith Sham
Records Supervisor
Marlboro Township Police
1979 Township Drive
Marlboro, NJ 07746
732-536-0100 EXT. 1423
[email address]