IT Infrastructure Agreements (2020–2025)
Dear Manchester Township,
Please accept this electronic request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form or use a particular software platform to submit my request per NJSA 47:1A-6(f), which states that an email from a requestor including all of the information required on the adopted form shall suffice in place of a completed form as a valid government record request.
I HAVE NOT been convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of New Jersey, any other state, or the United States.
I WILL NOT use the requested government records for a commercial purpose.
I AM NOT seeking records in connection with a legal proceeding.
Records requested:
I am requesting access to records related to any Information Technology agreements entered into between January 1, 2020 and the present, specifically those pertaining to:
Relevant contracts, MOUs, purchase orders, or professional service agreements for managed services for Data center upgrades or migrations and Networking infrastructure enhancements (including switching, routing, or wireless projects)
My preferred delivery method for response(s) to this request is by E-mail as attachments. Please confirm you have received this request. If you are not the custodian of records, please forward my request to that person and provide their email address to me for future reference.
Yours faithfully,
IT Trends Media
Good Morning,
Please clarify your OPRA Request as you are not clearing identifying a document.
OPRA only allows requests for records, not requests for information. MAG Entm't, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534, 546-49 (App. Div. 2005). In this regard, OPRA "is not intended as a research tool ... to force government officials to identify and siphon useful information." Id. at 546. In other words, a records custodian is not required "to conduct research among its records... and correlate data from various government records in the custodian's possession." Id. at 546-47. To qualify under OPRA then, the request must reasonably identify a record and not generally data, information or statistics.
OPRA does not "authorize a party to make a blanket request for every document" a public agency has on file. Gannett New Jersey Partners L.P. v. County of Middlesex, 379 N.J. Super. 205, 213 (App. Div. 2005). Rather, a party requesting access to a public record under OPRA must specifically describe the document sought. OPRA operates to make identifiable government records "readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination." N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1. As such, a proper request under OPRA must identify with reasonable clarity those documents that are desired, and a party cannot satisfy this requirement by simply requesting all of an agency's documents. OPRA does not authorize unbridled searches of an agency's property.
As written, this request is too vague to allow the custodian’s office to reasonable understand what records are being requested and must be denied. The requestor may provide a new request which clarifies with specificity the documents sought.
You may find it helpful to search General Code for all passed resolutions to identify documents you wish to obtain copies of. Here is the link: https://ecode360.com/MA0531/home
Thank you,
Teri Giercyk RMC, CMC, CMR
Municipal Clerk, Registrar
Manchester Township
Clerk’s Office
732-657-8121 ext. 3203
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