Legal bills for Busch Law Group

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Dear Sayreville School District,

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:

Legal bills and invoices for work performed by the Busch Law Group January 1, 2024 to October 1, 2025.

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,

Opra Transparency Seeker

Labbe, Richard, Sayreville School District

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Good afternoon. On behalf of the Sayreville Board of Education (“Board”
and/or “District”), I am responding to your request for records pursuant
to the Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) submitted and received via email
on Friday, October 17, 2025. As such, the seven (7) business day deadline
within which the Board is to respond is Tuesday, October 28, 2025.

 

“Legal bills and invoices for work performed by the Busch Law Group
January 1, 2024 to October 1, 2025.”

 

Enclosed please find the legal invoices submitted to the Board from The
Busch Law Group for the period of January 1, 2024 to October 1, 2025 which
have been redacted to protect confidential personnel information pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-10 and N.J.S.A. 10:4-12(b)(8); and, confidential student
information pursuant to N.J.S.A. 41:1A-1, N.J.A.C. 6A:32-7.1, et seq., the
Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (“FERPA”) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34
CFR Part 99), and L.R. v. Camden City Pub. Sch. Dist., 238 N.J. 547
(2019).

 

As the documents identified above are being provided to you in electronic
format only, there is no charge associated with your request. This
correspondence, the foregoing information and the enclosed documents
constitute the Board’s full and complete response to your OPRA request and
therefore, your OPRA request is closed.

 

Richard R. Labbe

Superintendent of Schools

Sayreville Public Schools

P.O. Box 997

Sayreville, NJ 08871

Office: (732) 525-5200

Cell: (732) 428-9237

 

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Dear Sayreville School District,

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:

Legal bills and invoices for work performed by the Busch Law Group January
1, 2024 to October 1, 2025.

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,

Opra Transparency Seeker

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