2022-1923
Date Received: 11/29/2022
Status: Under Review
Applicant: Anonymous
Information Requested: 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:

Please provide a call log, call reports, and communications for
all requests of service and dispatch of Lakewood Township OEM as
well as any organizations that are affiliated with or that
operates under OEM. This includes Lakewood Shomrim, LCSW, LSAR,
and Chaveirim. Please include any phone calls, text messages,
radio communications or any other means of communications that was
used while operating in an official capacity. The timeline for
this request is from January 2019 until today.

Response: The Township of Lakewood received your Open Public
Records Act (OPRA) request on 11/29/2022. As such, the seven (7)
business day deadline to respond to your request is 12/8/2022.
This response to your request is being provided to you before the
first business day after the custodian's receipt of said request.

Your OPRA request sought access to the following:

Records requested:

Please provide a call log, call reports, and communications for
all requests of service and dispatch of Lakewood Township OEM as
well as any organizations that are affiliated with or that
operates under OEM. This includes Lakewood Shomrim, LCSW, LSAR,
and Chaveirim. Please include any phone calls, text messages,
radio communications or any other means of communications that was
used while operating in an official capacity. The timeline for
this request is from January 2019 until today.

In accordance with Elcavage v. West Milford Twp (Passaic) your
request is invalid. In order to specifically identify the record
must contain the following four (4) characteristics:
(1) the content and/or subject of the correspondence
(2) the specific date or range of dates during which
correspondence was transmitted or the correspondence were
transmitted
(3) must identify the sender (by name or Title)
(4) must identify the recipient (by name or Title)

At this time, we are requesting clarification. Please provide the
following characteristics: (1) the content and/or subject of the
correspondence, (3) must identify the sender (by name or Title)
and (4) must identify the recipient (by name or Title).

[1]SDL Portal page for OPRA Request
Spatial Data Logic 2021

References

Visible links
1. https://u131632.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click...

2022-1923
Date Received: 11/29/2022
Status: Under Review
Applicant: Anonymous
Information Requested: 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:

Please provide a call log, call reports, and communications for
all requests of service and dispatch of Lakewood Township OEM as
well as any organizations that are affiliated with or that
operates under OEM. This includes Lakewood Shomrim, LCSW, LSAR,
and Chaveirim. Please include any phone calls, text messages,
radio communications or any other means of communications that was
used while operating in an official capacity. The timeline for
this request is from January 2019 until today.

Upon further review, issue is not that we need clarification but
that the system cannot distinguish calls. In regards to call logs,
call reports the system doesn't have a function to distinguish OEM
or specific organizations, so no records exist. Likewise, radio
recordings system cannot distinquish calls for specific
organizations which would then require the Township to conduct
research which OPRA is not a research tool. See Bent v. Stafford
Police Department, 381 N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005).
Further, radio recordings are only retained for 31 days.

This deems your request complete.

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 Township of
Lakewood to deny access. At your option, you may either institute
a proceeding in the Superior Court of New Jersey or file a
complaint with the Government Records Council (GRC) by completing
the Denial of Access Complaint Form. 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 [email address], or at their
web site at www.state.nj.us/grc. The GRC can also answer other
questions about the law. All questions regarding complaints filed
in Superior Court should be directed to the Court Clerk in your
County.
Spatial Data Logic 2021