Employee promotions
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Dear New Jersey Department of Education,
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:
I am resubmitting the request sent on May 13, 2025 with the same title (Employee promotions) that never received a response, despite following up on May 28th requesting an update. Please acknowledge receipt of this request, and in addition to answering the original request below, please provide an explanation for why there was no response to the first request:
Please provide the number of professional employees promoted from the salary range 28 to range 30 from January 2023 to present day. I would like, to the extent possible, a list: by position/title (including subtitles), the division and office, their last step in range 28 and first step in range 30, the date the promotion was submitted, and the effective start date of the new title. I would like employee names and any other identifying information to be redacted. This may be in an already existing list or separate files for each employee. Partial response is fine if all information is not available.
Original request: https://opramachine.com/request/employee...
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,
A curious constituent
Dear Requestor,
The Department of Education is in receipt of your email below. Please note, our records show that we did not receive your request on May 13, 2025. We received your request on May 28, 2025, and it is currently in progress. You will receive a response or extension notice by June 6, 2025, which is within seven business days as required by OPRA.
A receipt for your current request, is attached.
Jeannette Larkins
Records Custodian
New Jersey Department of Education
100 Riverview Plaza, Trenton, NJ – 08625
Web: https://www.nj.gov/education/
Dear OPRA Custodian,
Thank you, I appreciate the quick response. I will work with opramachine to see what the issue was and try to correct for it going forward.
Thanks again!
Dear Requestor,
Attached please find records responsive to the above referenced request.
The records have been redacted to protect reasonable expectations of
privacy relative to personal information, including employee ID numbers,
pursuant to NJSA 47:1A-1 et seq.
Regarding your request for “the date the promotion was submitted”, please
note that custodians are not required to create records in response to a
request, pursuant to MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Division of Alcoholic
Beverage Control, 375 N.J.Super. 534 (App. Div. 2005). Additionally, OPRA
does not require custodians to research files to discern which records
might be responsive to a request. Custodians have no legal duty to conduct
research to locate records responsive to OPRA requests pursuant to the
Superior Court’s decisions in MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Division of
Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534 (App. Div. 2005), Bent v.
Stafford Police Department, 381 N.J. Super. 30 (App. Div. 2005), New
Jersey Builders Association v. New Jersey Council of Affordable Housing,
390 N.J. Super. 166 (App. Div. 2007) and the Government Records Council’s
decision in Schuler v. Borough of Bloomsbury, GRC Complaint No. 2007-151
(March 2008). Accordingly, this part of your request is denied.
A receipt indicating same and that your request has been closed, is also
attached.
Jeannette Larkins
Records Custodian
New Jersey Department of Education
100 Riverview Plaza, Trenton, NJ – 08625
Web: [1]https://www.nj.gov/education/
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please immediately contact the New Jersey Department of Education at (609)
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