The Township of Livingston Clerk's Department is in receipt of your OPRA request. Pursuant to NJSA 47:1A-5(i), you shall receive a response in no more than seven (7) business days, with day one starting the day after the request has been received. (Holidays and Townhall closings do not count as business days).

Good morning,
This is in response to your OPRA request filed with Livingston Township on
3/31/2023 in which you requested the following:
EnviroSure is completing a Phase I ESA at a nearby property. In that
regard, we are requesting
a search of all files pertaining to the properties of 13 East Northfield
Road, 15 East Northfield Road, 17 East Northfield Road, 19 East Northfield
Road, and 25 East Northfield Road.
The Open Public Records Act deals with requests for readily identifiable
public records. The Custodian of Records is not supposed to perform
research to determine which documents exist, rather to make available  to
a requestor a specific record that has been identified by the
requestor. See Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381 N.J. Super. 30, 37
(App. Div. 2005); see also MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Division of Alcoholic
Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534, (App. Div. 2005) (the municipality
does not have to provide the information sought under OPRA if it fails to
identify any specificity or particularity the governmental records sought
and seeks general information to be analyzed, collated and compiled by the
responding government entity which is not encompassed by OPRA.)
While OPRA provides an alternative means of access to government documents
not otherwise exempted from its reach, it 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." Id. citing N.J.S.A. 47: 1A-1.  
As such, the Clerks Department advises that for any future OPRA requests
to please identify the records you seek. 
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Peterson
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Elizabeth Peterson, RMC

Deputy Township Clerk

Clerk's Office

Livingston Township Hall

357 S. Livingston Avenue

Livingston, NJ 07039

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The Township of Livingston Clerk's Department is in receipt of your OPRA request. Pursuant to NJSA 47:1A-5(i), you shall receive a response in no more than seven (7) business days, with day one starting the day after the request has been received. (Holidays and Townhall closings do not count as business days).