Emergency vehicle crash in July 2024
Dear Westwood Borough,
Please accept this electronic request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form or use a particular software platform to submit my request per NJSA 47:1A-6(f), which states that an email from a requestor including all of the information required on the adopted form shall suffice in place of a completed form as a valid government record request.
I HAVE NOT been convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of New Jersey, any other state, or the United States.
I WILL NOT use the requested government records for a commercial purpose.
I AM NOT seeking records in connection with a legal proceeding.
Records requested:
all email communications, written communications, crash reports, incident reports, investigation reports, internal affairs records, cad records, audio records, video recordings, citations, summonses issued, charge sheets, disposition of charges, and court records pertaining to (an) incident(s) in july 2024 during which an emergency vehicle was involved in a crash at washington and lafayette avenues.
My preferred delivery method for response(s) to this request is by E-mail as attachments. Please confirm you have received this request. If you are not the custodian of records, please forward my request to that person and provide their email address to me for future reference.
Yours faithfully,
W Cardinales
Good Morning,
I apologize for the delay.
I am working on your OPRA request but need an extension to complete it.
I am hoping to have the items requested for you by end of day tomorrow
9/27.
I am working on video redaction as there was a juvenile involved in the
incident.
Please feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions or
concerns.
Thank you,
Kim
Best Regards,
Kimberly Haffler
Police Records Clerk
Westwood Police Department
101 Washington Ave
Westwood, NJ 07675
Tel. (201) 664-7000 Ext. 160
Fax (201) 664-7009
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Good Afternoon,
Unfortunately, the redaction of the video footage is more time consuming
than originally anticipated.
Due to this fact, I need to request an extension until Wednesday, October
2^nd.
I appreciate your understanding and look forward to completing this
request next week.
Thank you.
Kim
Best Regards,
Kimberly Haffler
Police Records Clerk
Westwood Police Department
101 Washington Ave
Westwood, NJ 07675
Tel. (201) 664-7000 Ext. 160
Fax (201) 664-7009
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advisory, consultative and/or deliberative material, confidential
information or privileged communications of the Borough of Westwood. In
addition, emails may be subject to disclosure under the Open Public
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and the intended recipient(s) is unauthorized. If you are not the intended
recipient of this message, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action
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Dear Kimberly Haffler,
Response to this request is delayed. By law, Westwood Borough should normally have responded promptly and by September 25, 2024 (details)
Yours sincerely,
Willie Cardinales
Good Afternoon,
As stated in my previous email, your OPRA request is completed today.
Attached are the reports and photographs.
The video will arrive shortly from our Command Central Evidence System. It will have our car and bodycam video as well as the other video provided and the audio.
As stated in previous email the video did have to be redacted for the Juvenile in the video.
Any records from the court must come directly from them and this request has been forwarded to them for that purpose.
Please let me know if you need anything further.
Thank you,
Kim
Best Regards,
Kimberly Haffler
Police Records Clerk
Westwood Police Department
101 Washington Ave
Westwood, NJ 07675
Tel. (201) 664-7000 Ext. 160
Fax (201) 664-7009
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Dear Kimberly Haffler,
Thank you for answering the records request.
I noticed in reading through the records that a ticket or tickets were written.
In my original request, I asked for “….charge sheets, disposition of charges, and court records” in addition to tickets and reports themselves.
Can i still find out what happened with the ticket or tickets written? Or am i going to need to file a new request for that information?
Yours sincerely,
Willie Cardinales
As stated in my response to you those records need to come from the court directly, as I do not have access to the,
I did forward your request to them. It is also very possible that the summons may not have been through the entire court process at this time.
You can reach out to them directly for the status of that at [email address] or 201-666-8510.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.
Kim
Best Regards,
Kimberly Haffler
Police Records Clerk
Westwood Police Department
101 Washington Ave
Westwood, NJ 07675
Tel. (201) 664-7000 Ext. 160
Fax (201) 664-7009
Dear Kimberly Haffler,
oh ok sorry i just didnt see that part sorry for the trouble.
i guess i can wait until the court replies to ask this: but if it is the case i asked before the tickets were resolved (im a bit confused here as it says on the face of the ticket i read that the court date is august were in october now), am i going to have to come back at a later time to try again, or will the court notify me when the court process completes?
Yours sincerely,
Willie Cardinales
Not a problem.
Generally the court date on the summons is just a first appearance, and it is followed by another court date.
I would reach out directly to the court to ask those questions because I cannot answer to what they can or cannot do.
Kim