Please see the acknowledgement below.
 
Kathryn M. Noonan
Office of the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners
Advisory Board Coordinator and OPRA Compliance
Union County Administration Building, 6th Floor
10 Elizabethtown Plaza
Elizabeth,  New Jersey   07207
Telephone 908 527-4157  Facsimile 908 558-0915  Email: 
[1][email address]
 
 
To:     Anonymous
 
From:   James E. Pellettiere, RMC, QPA, Clerk of the Board
 
Date:   September 7, 2021
 
Re:     Open Public Records Act (OPRA) Request(s)
 
 
This office received your request for Union County prosecutor records
regarding Antonio Manata, on September 7, 2021.  The OPRA law requires
that a response be provided within seven (7) business days, beginning the
first business day after receipt of the request.  We will have a response
prepared by September 16, 2021. 
 
We will contact you and provide a page count and price, should you wish to
purchase any copies.  You also have the option of viewing the records in
the Clerk of the Board’s office.  If the records are available
electronically, they can be provided via email if preferred.  There is no
charge for email or to inspect a document.
 
Pursuant to Ordinance 710-2010, adopted on October 14, 2010, the following
fee schedule applies for photocopies: first page to tenth page: no charge;
eleventh page and every page thereafter: $.05 per page for documents that
are letter-sized or smaller, and $.07 per page for documents that are
legal-sized or larger.  There shall be a limit of thirty (30) pages
forwarded via facsimile to any requestor, per request, and the fee
schedule is as follows: first page to tenth page: no charge; eleventh page
to thirtieth page: $.05 per page for letter-sized documents, and $.07 per
page for legal-sized documents.
If you wish to have records mailed or faxed to you, we kindly ask that you
remit payment to the following address:
 
Office of the Clerk of the Board
Union County Administration Building – 6th Floor     
10 Elizabethtown Plaza, Elizabeth, NJ 07207
 
Please do not send cash; kindly make a check or money order payable to the
County of Union.  We will provide the documents upon receipt of payment. 
If no information is available, or falls under a category protected by
law, our response will provide an explanation.
 
OPRA ordinarily grants immediate access to budgets, bills, vouchers,
contracts (including collective negotiations agreements and individual
employment contracts), and public employee salary and overtime
information.  However, it may take longer to complete requests for
immediately accessible documents depending on the amount of material
requested, medium requested, if redaction is required, or if records are
in storage.  For all other records: documents stored in archive, those
that require redaction as provided by law, or requests that require an
extensive amount of work to complete may take longer than seven (7)
business days to compile. 
In accordance with the OPRA, requests that require an extensive amount of
effort to complete may be subject to a special service charge in addition
to the statutory per-page fees.  Special service fees, if applicable, are
determined on a case-by-case basis and you will be informed of the charge
prior to it being incurred.  The archive fee is $2.00 per box—in addition
to the statutory per-page copy fees—and you will be informed of any fees
prior to the charge being incurred.
 
If your OPRA request is denied, you have a right to appeal the decision. 
You may take your appeal to the New Jersey Government Records Council
(GRC) or the New Jersey Superior Court, as provided by N.J.S.A. 47:1A-6
and 7.  For additional information on the appeal process, please visit:
[2]http://www.nj.gov/grc/register/appeal/.
 
We thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation and patience
while we work to fill your request. If you have any questions, please call
this office at (908) 527-4178 or (908) 527-4157. 
 
 

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Dear JF,

In response to your email today regarding your OPRA request for “a summary
of Lieutenant Antonio Manata of the Clark Township's Police Department
internal affair complaints during his employment at the Clark Police
Department, to include date complaint filed, types of complaint,
dispositions and discipline given, if any,” and your clarification of
September 7, 2021, stating “Also, in order to clarify my request, I am
only requesting a summary of Antonio Manata's internal affairs complaints
while employed at the Clark NJ Police Department, to include dates, types
of complaint, adjudications and punishment, and not the contents of all
the internal affairs complaints.”

The County was closed for the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 6, so
your OPRA request was not received until September 7. In accordance with
OPRA, a response is due to your request tomorrow. In the interim, I have
reached out to the Prosecutor’s Office for an update on your request and
am awaiting same. A further update will be provided tomorrow.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Marlena

Marlena M. Russo

OPRA Compliance Manager

Office of the Clerk of the Board

Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor

10 Elizabethtown Plaza

Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915 / Email: [1][Union County request email]

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Dear JF,

Please be advised some additional time is needed to review and respond to
your OPRA request cited below, as the Prosecutor’s Office is still
reviewing and processing your request. Respectfully, we expect to have a
response to you by September 23. Thank you for your anticipated
cooperation and patience while we work to respond to your OPRA request.

Marlena

Marlena M. Russo

OPRA Compliance Manager

Office of the Clerk of the Board

Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor

10 Elizabethtown Plaza

Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915 / Email: [1][Union County request email]

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From: Marlena Russo On Behalf Of Opra
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 5:03 PM
To: 'JF' <[OPRA #25760 email]>
Subject: 9/7 OPRA Request #746-2021 Update - IA Complaints
Importance: High

Dear JF,

In response to your email today regarding your OPRA request for “a summary
of Lieutenant Antonio Manata of the Clark Township's Police Department
internal affair complaints during his employment at the Clark Police
Department, to include date complaint filed, types of complaint,
dispositions and discipline given, if any,” and your clarification of
September 7, 2021, stating “Also, in order to clarify my request, I am
only requesting a summary of Antonio Manata's internal affairs complaints
while employed at the Clark NJ Police Department, to include dates, types
of complaint, adjudications and punishment, and not the contents of all
the internal affairs complaints.”

The County was closed for the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 6, so
your OPRA request was not received until September 7. In accordance with
OPRA, a response is due to your request tomorrow. In the interim, I have
reached out to the Prosecutor’s Office for an update on your request and
am awaiting same. A further update will be provided tomorrow.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Marlena

Marlena M. Russo

OPRA Compliance Manager

Office of the Clerk of the Board

Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor

10 Elizabethtown Plaza

Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915 / Email: [2][Union County request email]

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Dear J.F.,

Attached please find the response of this Office to your above-referenced
request for records pursuant to OPRA and the common law.

Very truly yours,

Robert J. Rosenthal

Assistant Prosecutor

Chief OPRA Officer

Union County Prosecutor's Office

32 Rahway Avenue

Elizabeth, New Jersey 07202

(Work) 908-527-4592

(Fax) 908-527-4614

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