OPRA Request – City of Atlantic City

1. Total number of body cameras currently deployed in the police
department.

2. Date on which body cameras were deployed to any of the police officers
for the first time (year and month).

3. All invoices of body cameras purchases (if body cameras were
purchased).

4. Dates of initial body camera assignment for each police officer
currently employed.

Good afternoon:

Please be advised the response to your OPRA request is as follows:

Your OPRA request is denied.

Items 1, 2 and 4 of the request appear to impermissibly seek information
and not the production of a readily-identifiable document.  These items
are denied.

OPRA “is not intended as a research tool ... to force government officials
to identify and siphon useful information.”  See  Bent v. Twp. of Stafford
Police Dep't,

Custodian of Records, 381 N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005) (quoting MAG
Entm't, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534,
546-49

(App. Div. 2005). To qualify under OPRA, the request must reasonably
identify a record and not generally seek data, information or statistics.

Item 3 of the request is denied as overbroad.

“Although OPRA favors broad public access to government records, it is not
intended to be a research tool…

Thus, to prompt disclosure under OPRA, requests for information must be
properly circumscribed.”  Simmons v. Mercado, 2021 N.J. LEXIS 557, *4,
2021 WL 2639771.

A proper request under OPRA must identify with reasonable clarity those
documents that are desired, and a party cannot satisfy this requirement by
simply requestin

all of an agency’s documents.  See Bent v. Stafford Police Dept., 381 N.J.
Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005).

As drafted, this portion of the request does not properly identify the
specific government records you are seeking and is therefore denied

as overbroad and improper under OPRA. See MAG Entm’t, LLC v. Div. of
Alcohol Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534 (App. Div. 2005).

Thank you.

Eddie Lax

Keyboarding Clerk 4
City Clerk’s Office

City of Atlantic City

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