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Dear Ridgefield Borough,
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 would like a copy of the Mayors facebook banned list that is most active and current as of April 14, 2020
I would like a copy of the Mayors Pages roles page that is most active and current as of April 14, 2020
I would like a copy of the Mayors facebook censored words/ profanity filter page that is most active and current as of April 14, 2020
I would like a copy of all phone call files/recordings for calling 911 or the non emergency police line for people violating the govenor's executive orders from april 1, 2020 through April 15, 2020
Yours faithfully,
William Bailey
Good morning Mr. Bailey. I am in receipt of your OPRA request dated April 13, 2020. Attached please find the Mayor's facebook banned list, page roles page, and profanity filter page. Please make your request for all phone call files/recordings for calling 911 or the non-emergency police line for people violating the Governor's executive orders from April 1, 2020 through April 15, 2020 through the Bergen County Public Safety Operations Center as we contract out communication with the County.
Dear Linda Silvestri,
You have a contract for the services so you have to get them and provide them to the requester.
Yours sincerely,
William Bailey
Good morning Mr. Bailey.
In response to your email the Borough was in contact with Bergen County Public Safety Operations Center. Their response was as follows. Please be advised that the PSOC is unable to provide a response to the request as it is overly broad and fails to name specifically identifiable records as required by O.P.R.A. 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); Schuler v. Borough of Bloomsbury, GRC Complaint No. 2007-151 (Feb. 2009).
Moreover, OPRA only allows requests for records, not requests for information. Bent v. Stafford Police Dept., 381 N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005) (citing MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J.Super. 534, 546-49 (App. Div. 2005). In this regard, O.P.R.A. is not intended as a research tool…to force government officials to identify and siphon useful information. In other words, a records custodian is not required to conduct research among its records…and correlate data from various government records in custodians’ possession. Id. at 546-47. To qualify under OPRA then, the requestor must reasonably identify a record and not generally data, information or statistics."