Email logs
Dear Pinelands 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 acknowledge receipt of this message.
Records requested:
I am seeking a log of all emails to and from the identified emails during the specified time frames that shows the sender, recipient, date and subject. Please see the Paff v. Township of Galloway Supreme Court decision from 2017, which held this is a valid request.
1. Copies of all emails containing Shelly Meyers. Shelly Meyers was approved to conduct a special education department audit, approved July 2018. Please include all emails from and to Shelly Meyers addressed to Pinelands & Little Egg Harbor school district employees & BOE members including Melissa McCooley, Gina Frasca, Ellen Ward, Erin Lichtenwalner and Susan Ernst from July 2018 through February 2018.
Please include sender, recipient, date and subject.
An email log can be very easily retrieved and should be pulled by a member of the (IT) department, whoever is in charge of the email server. The email log is a very simple, short document (It is usually in a spreadsheet type format) with meta data information, no need to redact meta data logs, no specific content is in meta data email logs to warrant redacting and should contain only the following:
a. date message was sent and/or received,
b. name of sender and/or recipient, copy (cc)
c. email address of sender and/or recipient,
d. the subject of each email.
Note: "Special service charges" by law apply to services applied to documents/materials requested outside of normal public information. Basic reports and email meta data “DO NOT” apply to "special service charge" requested materials. None of the other NJ Agencies on OPRA machine website are charging for electronic copies of their email logs for this type of standard request.
Yours faithfully,
Concerned Pinelands Parent
Good Afternoon,
Please be advised that I am the Custodian of Records for the Pinelands
Regional School District Board of Education (the “Board”). I am in
receipt of your April 26, 2019 (the “Request”) for records pursuant to the
Open Public Records Act (“OPRA” or the “Act”). The Request seeks:
1. Copies of all emails containing Shelly Meyers. Shelly Meyers
was approved to conduct a special education department audit, approved
July 2018. Please include all emails from and to Shelly Meyers addressed
to Pinelands & Little Egg Harbor school district employees & BOE members
including Melissa McCooley, Gina Frasca, Ellen Ward, Erin Lichtenwalner
and Susan Ernst from July 2018 through February 2018.
Please clarify whether you seek the logs for the above referenced emails
or the emails themselves.
Please also be advised that the Board requires additional time to process
the Requests. Accordingly, the Board will provide you with any records it
may have responsive to the Requests on or before Tuesday May 17, 2019.
Thank you in advance for understanding.
Dear Nicholas Brown,
Please provide Email logs only at this time.
Yours sincerely,
Concerned Pinelands Parent
Good Morning,
Kindly accept this letter in response to your request for records pursuant
to the Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”), N.J.S.A. 47:1A–1 to–13, which is
dated April 15, 2019.
Thank you for your courtesies. In your OPRA request you indicated that
your preferred method to receive communications from the Board is through
e-mail. Therefore, this letter is being sent to you via e-mail. If I can
be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Nick Brown
School Business Administrator/ Board Secretary
Pinelands Regional School District