September 24, 2021

Dear Mr. Pool,

This correspondence is being sent in response to the Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) request you submitted to the Ridgewood Public Schools. As the official Records Custodian, I received this request on September 24, 2021. As such, the seven (7) business day deadline to respond to your request is October 5, 2021. I will be sending a response to your request within this deadline.

If your request for access to a government record has been denied or unfilled within the seven business days required by law, you have a right to challenge the Board’s decision to deny access. At your option, you may either institute a proceeding in the Superior Court of New Jersey or file a complaint with the GRC by completing the Denial of Access Complaint Form. You may contact the GRC by toll-free telephone at (866)-850-0511, by mail at P.O. Box 819, Trenton, New Jersey, 08625, by e-mail at [email address], or at their website at www.state.nj.us/grc. The Council can also answer other questions about the law. All questions regarding complaints filed in Superior Court should be directed to the Court Clerk in your County.

Sincerely,

Scott T. Bisig, M.Ed.
Business Administrator/Board Secretary
Ridgewood Public Schools

September 28, 2021

Dear Mr. Pool:

The Ridgewood Board of Education (“Board”) received your Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) request and advised that you should expect a response by October 5, 2021. As such, the Board is timely responding to your OPRA request in accordance with New Jersey law.

Your request seeks the following records:

Copies of any & all e-mails from employee Nicole Redfern that were directed to any member of the Ridgewood Board of Education sent between April 1, 2020 and September 24, 2021.

The Board has identified nine (9) pages of records as responsive to your request. Please note that personal e-mail addresses have been redacted to protect an individual’s reasonable expectation of privacy. See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 (providing that “a public agency has a responsibility and an obligation to safeguard from public access a citizen’s personal information with which it has been entrusted when disclosure thereof would violate the citizen’s reasonable expectation of privacy . . .”); Kemery v. Gloucester Twp. Fire District No. 4 (Camden), GRC Complaint No. 2014-290 (2016) (holding that the records custodian properly redacted the personal e-mail address of the Fire Chief); and Wolosky v. Somerset Cty., 2017 WL 1179852 (App. Div. 2017) (holding that the County properly redacted the e-mail and home addresses from the documents provided to the requestor).

Your requested information can be found in the attached file.

Your OPRA request is now deemed answered and closed.

Very truly yours,

Scott Bisig
Business Administrator/Board Secretary