Dear Shelly Kennedy,

Thank you for registering with the Camden County Open Public Records
Center.  Please log in to the Records Center to update any contact or
password information and to track the progress of your request.
Login: [OPRA #24033 email]
If you have never used this system or cannot remember your password you
may request a temporary password here: 
Request Temporary Password [1]here.

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Maria Efstratiades
Custodian of Records Telephone: (856) 225 – 2131  
Camden County Administration    
520 Market Street, 11th Floor
Camden, NJ 08102-1375

Dear Shelly Kennedy:
 
Thank you for submitting an Open Public Records request with Camden
County.   Your request was given the reference number W018926-061721 for
tracking purposes.
 
Our office will forward your request to the appropriate Department for
their review and search of their files for the requested records.   A
written response will be send to you within seven business days or sooner
depending on the type of records requested.   
 
Please note that day one of the calculation begins the day after the
custodian receives your OPRA request.  This calculation applies to the
agency’s actual business days of operations which are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.  If the agency is closed for a holiday, this date does not count
towards the seven business day deadline.  If any request received after
the close of a business day will be deemed received on the next business
day.
 
You may monitor the progress of your request at the link below.
 Additionally, you will receive an email from our office to inform you
that your request has been completed and a response is posted at the below
link.  
 
Again, thank you for using the Open Public Records Center.  
 
 
Open Public Records Center
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Maria Efstratiades
Custodian of Records 
 

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Maria Efstratiades
Custodian of Records Telephone: (856) 225 – 2131  
Camden County Administration    
520 Market Street, 11th Floor
Camden, NJ 08102-1375

 
Please DO NOT REPLY to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you
will not receive a response. FOR FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE PLEASE send an
email to [1][email address] or GENERATE A NEW REQUEST
THROUGH THE OPEN RECORDS CENTER.
 
06/17/2021
 
 
RE: OPRA Request of 6/17/2021, Reference # W018926-061721
 
Dear Shelly Kennedy,
 
The Camden County Custodian of Records received your Open Public Records
Act request on 6/17/2021.  To access your request please click [2]here.

Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.i, we require an extension of time to allow
the Department's personnel to conduct an extensive search for the
requested records.
 
We anticipate that we will have a response ready for you on or about July
9, 2021.  
 

Should you have any questions, please contact the Custodian of Records at
(856) 225-2131.

 
Sincerely,
 
Steffani Lon for
Maria Efstratiades 
 
Maria Efstratiades
Custodian of Records
Camden County
Office of Archives & Records Management
Courthouse, 11th Floor
520 Market Street
Camden, NJ 08102-1375
 
Phone: (856) 225-2131
E-mail:  [3][email address]
 
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Maria Efstratiades
Custodian of Records Telephone: (856) 225 – 2131  
Camden County Administration    
520 Market Street, 11th Floor
Camden, NJ 08102-1375

 
Please DO NOT REPLY to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you
will not receive a response. FOR FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE PLEASE send an
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THROUGH THE OPEN RECORDS CENTER.
 
07/09/2021
 
 
RE: OPRA REQUEST of 6/17/2021, Reference # W018926-061721
 
Dear Shelly Kennedy,
 
The Camden County Custodian of Records received your Open Public Records
Act request on 6/17/2021. To access your request and retrieve your records
please click [2]here.
 
Our office understands that you are not required to log in to a special
website or create an account to retrieve records that we are providing
you. However, the results of the search that the Departments conducted is
voluminous and sending these through email is not feasible as email is not
designed to transport the large amounts of data that you have requested.
For that reason, we are unable to provide all requested records via email
attachment. In this respect, we recommend that you log in to our Open
Public Records Act (OPRA) Portal.

This response complies with both Common Law and OPRA, with comments which
includes the responses based on OPRA.

The Camden County Departments conducted a search of their files and
provided the following responses to each portion of your request:

Your request for
“1. Total amount of funding received from CTCL (aka Center for Tech and
Civic Life)
-- both in this immediately past election cycle, and
-- in any previous election cycles going back to October 2019
2. Any grants awarded from or submitted to Center for Tech and Civic Life
(aka CTCL)
3. The dollar amount of such grants in #2 above.”
Custodian’s Response to 1, 2 and 3: The Camden County Clerk’s Office and
the Camden County Board of Elections provided records responsive to these
portions of your request.
Your request for
“4. How was the money in #3 above spent? Provide specific categories and
spending amounts in every election cycle which used funding from CTCL.”
 
Custodian’s Response to 4: This portion of your request is wholesale
request for information that is not encompassed by the intent of OPRA as
has been articulated in N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1, et. seq. and MAG Entertainment
v. Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534 (App. Div.
2005). However, the Camden County Clerk’s Office and the Camden County
Division of Finance provided records responsive to this portion of your
request.
 
Your request for
“5. Minutes of the Board of Elections meetings during which Center for
Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and its funding was discussed and/or approved”
Custodian’s Response to 5: The Camden County Board of Elections provided
records responsive to this portion of your request.
Your request for
“6. Provide a copy of any CTCL grant applications”
Custodian’s Response to 6: The Camden County Board of Elections and the
Camden County Clerk’s Office provided records responsive to this portion
of your request.

Your request for
“7. Provide a digital copy (PDF or image) of emails where "CTCL" or
"Center for Tech and Civic Life" is mentioned”
Custodian’s Response to 7: The Camden County Office of Information
Technology and Telecommunications conducted a search of their records and
provided over 1,000 emails.

The results of this search are voluminous and reviewing these records will
require an extraordinary expenditure of time and effort which warrants for
a special service charge pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.c.
Our office calculated the special service charge in the following manner:
For emails where "CTCL" or "Center for Tech and Civic Life" is mentioned
during the time period between October 2019 to present, a staff member
from our office will review the emails and redact any exempt information
if/and where necessary pursuant to the OPRA. This staff member will
require approximately 200 hours of work at an hourly rate of $24.305 per
hour - the hourly rate of the lowest level employee capable of fulfilling
this request (no fringe benefits). The total special service charge is
$4,861.
OPRA allows public agencies to impose special service charges whenever the
nature, format, manner of collation, or volume of a government record
embodied in the form of printed matter to be inspected, examined, or
copied pursuant to this section is such that the record cannot be
reproduced by ordinary document copying equipment in ordinary business
size or when fulfilling a request requires an extraordinary expenditure of
time and effort. See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.c. As such, special service charge
must be based upon the actual direct cost which means hourly rate of the
lowest level employee capable of fulfilling the request with no fringe
benefits. Additionally, OPRA mandates that the requestor shall have the
opportunity to review and object to the charge prior to it being incurred.
See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.c.
Kindly respond in writing no later than July 16, 2021, with your
acceptance or rejection of the special service charge of $4,861.
 
The Custodian of Records will not begin to process the responses to your
request for #7 until we receive your written acceptance and check. If you
respond via email please send an email
to [3][email address]. If you prefer to send regular mail
please use the address listed below the Custodian's signature line.
Upon receipt of the authorization and check of $4,861, payable to "Camden
County Treasurer", we will inform you as to the expected completion date.
If we do not receive a response from you by the aforementioned date, we
will consider the request completed and closed.
 
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1, et seq. if your request for access to a
government record has been denied or unfilled within the seven (7)
business days required by law, you have a right to challenge the decision
by the County of Camden to deny access.  As provided by law, you have the
right to either institute a proceeding in the Superior Court of New Jersey
or file a complaint with the Government Records Council (GRC) by
completing their Denial of Access Complaint Form located at the GRC’s
website at [4]www.state.nj.us/grc. 
 
You may contact the GRC by toll-free telephone at 866-850-0511, by mail at
P.O. Box 819, Trenton, NJ, 08625, by e-mail at [5][email address]. The
GRC can also answer other questions about the law. All questions regarding
complaints filed in Superior Court should be directed to the Superior
Court.
 
 
Should you have any questions, please contact the Custodian of Records at
(856) 225-2131.
 
 
Sincerely,
 
Steffani Lon for
Maria Efstratiades 
 
Maria Efstratiades
Custodian of Records
Camden County
Office of Archives & Records Management
Courthouse, 11th Floor
520 Market Street
Camden, NJ 08102-1375
 
Phone: (856) 225-2131
E-mail:  [6][email address]
 
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