Email Request
Dear Monroe Township School District (Middlesex),
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:
1. Intercommunication (emails, company messenger, texts) between board members Christine Skurbe and Karen Walka Bierman discussing board conduct, behavior, and ethics. Responsive records should include the timeframe of March 01, 2022 until the time of this dated request.
Yours faithfully,
Anonymously
Recieved
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From: Anonymous <[OPRA #30323 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 4:46 PM
To: Reeshemah Zielinski <[email address]>
Subject: [External Email]OPRA request - Email Request
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Monroe Township IT Department
Dear Monroe Township School District (Middlesex),
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:
1. Intercommunication (emails, company messenger, texts) between board members Christine Skurbe and Karen Walka Bierman discussing board conduct, behavior, and ethics. Responsive records should include the timeframe of March 01, 2022 until the time of this dated request.
Yours faithfully,
Anonymously
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The Board is in receipt of your Open Public Records Act request seeking “Intercommunication (emails, company messenger, texts) between board members Christine Skurbe and Karen Walka Bierman discussing board conduct, behavior, and ethics. Responsive records should include the timeframe of March 01, 2022 until the time of this dated request.” Your request requires further clarification. A proper request under OPRA must identify with reasonable clarity those documents that are desired. See Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381 N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). In particular, OPRA “is not intended as a research tool litigants may use to force government officials to identify and siphon useful information. Rather, OPRA simply operates to make identifiable government records ‘readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination.’ N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.” MAG Entm't, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534, 543 (App. Div. 2005). Determining whether communications are discussing board conduct, behavior, and ethics would require the records custodian to read through every email and text message and make a discretionary determination on whether the e-mail was discussing the aforementioned general topics. As your request does not identify a specific government record, it is denied, at this time, until further clarification is provided.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anonymous <[OPRA #30323 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 4:46 PM
To: Reeshemah Zielinski <[email address]>
Subject: [External Email]OPRA request - Email Request
[You don't often get email from [OPRA #30323 email]. Learn why this is important at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentifica...
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the school district. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Monroe Township IT Department
Dear Monroe Township School District (Middlesex),
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:
1. Intercommunication (emails, company messenger, texts) between board members Christine Skurbe and Karen Walka Bierman discussing board conduct, behavior, and ethics. Responsive records should include the timeframe of March 01, 2022 until the time of this dated request.
Yours faithfully,
Anonymously
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[OPRA #30323 email]
Is [email address] the wrong address for OPRA requests to Monroe Township School District (Middlesex)? If so, please contact us using this form:
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Dear Reeshemah Zielinski,
Text Messages and/or emails should have the following words in subject line or in body of text: Ethics, undermine, undermining, complaint, ethical, behavior.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous
Received.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anonymous <[OPRA #30323 email]>
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 9:01 PM
To: Reeshemah Zielinski <[email address]>
Subject: [External Email]RE: [External Email]OPRA request - Email Request
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the school district. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Monroe Township IT Department
Dear Reeshemah Zielinski,
Text Messages and/or emails should have the following words in subject line or in body of text: Ethics, undermine, undermining, complaint, ethical, behavior.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous
-----Original Message-----
The Board is in receipt of your Open Public Records Act request seeking “Intercommunication (emails, company messenger, texts) between board members Christine Skurbe and Karen Walka Bierman discussing board conduct, behavior, and ethics. Responsive records should include the timeframe of March 01, 2022 until the time of this dated request.” Your request requires further clarification. A proper request under OPRA must identify with reasonable clarity those documents that are desired. See Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381 N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). In particular, OPRA “is not intended as a research tool litigants may use to force government officials to identify and siphon useful information. Rather, OPRA simply operates to make identifiable government records ‘readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination.’ N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.” MAG Entm't, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534, 543 (App. Div. 2005). Determining whether communications are discussing board conduct, behavior, and ethics would require the records custodian to read through every email and text message and make a discretionary determination on whether the e-mail was discussing the aforementioned general topics. As your request does not identify a specific government record, it is denied, at this time, until further clarification is provided.
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Dear Reeshemah Zielinski,
Text Messages and/or emails should have the following words in subject line or in body of text: Ethics, undermine, undermining, complaint, ethical, behavior. This is a simple keyword search by IT.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous
The Board is in receipt of your Open Public Records Act ("OPRA") request. Your request requires additional time to respond due to the significant demands placed on the District with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, and OPRA requests. OPRA allows custodians to seek extensions of time pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(i). Specifically, OPRA states that “the requestor shall be advised by the custodian when the record can be made available. If the record is not made available by that time, access shall be deemed denied.” Accordingly, your request requires an extension of time until June 27, 2022.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anonymous <[OPRA #30323 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 5:16 PM
To: Reeshemah Zielinski <[email address]>
Subject: [External Email]Internal review of OPRA request - Email Request
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the school district. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Monroe Township IT Department
Dear Reeshemah Zielinski,
Text Messages and/or emails should have the following words in subject line or in body of text: Ethics, undermine, undermining, complaint, ethical, behavior. This is a simple keyword search by IT.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous
-----Original Message-----
Received.
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Dear Anonymous,
Due to a death in our attorney’s family, personnel limitations, the vacation schedules, and the need to conduct a review to determine whether confidential information is containing within the government records you are requesting, the Custodian requires an extension to respond to your request until August 27, 2022.
-----Original Message-----
From: Reeshemah Zielinski
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 3:46 PM
To: Anonymous <[OPRA #30323 email]>
Cc: Chari Chanley <[email address]>; Adam Layman <[email address]>; Joann Byrnes <[email address]>
Subject: RE: [External Email]Internal review of OPRA request - Email Request
The Board is in receipt of your Open Public Records Act ("OPRA") request. Your request requires additional time to respond due to the significant demands placed on the District with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, and OPRA requests. OPRA allows custodians to seek extensions of time pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(i). Specifically, OPRA states that “the requestor shall be advised by the custodian when the record can be made available. If the record is not made available by that time, access shall be deemed denied.” Accordingly, your request requires an extension of time until June 27, 2022.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anonymous <[OPRA #30323 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 5:16 PM
To: Reeshemah Zielinski <[email address]>
Subject: [External Email]Internal review of OPRA request - Email Request
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the school district. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Monroe Township IT Department
Dear Reeshemah Zielinski,
Text Messages and/or emails should have the following words in subject line or in body of text: Ethics, undermine, undermining, complaint, ethical, behavior. This is a simple keyword search by IT.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous
-----Original Message-----
Received.
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Dear Anonymous,
The District is in receipt of your request for records under the Open
Public Records Act. Your previous request sought, "Intercommunication
(emails, company messenger, texts) between board members Christine Skurbe
and Karen Walka Bierman discussing board conduct, behavior, and ethics.
Responsive records should include the timeframe of March 01, 2022 until
the time of this dated request." This request was denied for failing to
identify a specific government record. Subsequently, the District received
the following request: "Text Messages and/or emails should have the
following words in subject line or in body of text: Ethics, undermine,
undermining, complaint, ethical, behavior." It is unclear whether this is
a new request or clarification to the prior request. If it is
clarification, the District remains unclear of the records that you are
seeking, as the first request and the new request provide different terms.
As the contents of the request are unclear, it is denied at this time,
until clarification is provided, such by including one request that fully
encompasses the records that you are seeking. If this is a new request, it
also requires further clarification. The Government Records Council
("GRC") has established specific criteria that must be met for a requestor
to identify specific government communications. The GRC determined that to
be valid, the request must contain: (1) the content and/or subject of the
communication, (2) the specific date or range of dates during which the
communications were transmitted, and (3) the identity of the sender and/or
the recipient thereof. Elcavage v. West Milford Twp., GRC Complaint No.
2009-07 (April 2010); Caggiano v. NJ Office of the Governor, Complaint No.
2014-263 (March 2015). Your request fails to provide the requisite
information to identify a specific government communication. As a result,
if it is a separate request, it also is denied, at this time, until
further clarification is provided.
Thank you,
Lisa Goldstein
OPRA Secretary/Custodian of Records
Monroe Township Schools
423 Buckelew Ave
Monroe Township, NJ 08831
Phone: 732-521-1500 ext 5248
Fax: 732-521-2719