Legal Invoices with accompanying emails for 2022 - Morris County MEL JIF for the Town of Boonton
Dear Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund (Morris County),
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 invoices with accompanying sender's email (the actual email(s) from the vendor/attorney's office to the receiving individual at the Morris County MEL JIF, and then their respective included attachment(s), which would presumably be the invoices) for all legal services rendered and reimbursed by the Morris County JIF on behalf of the Town of Boonton from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022.
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,
Stephen Jones
Good Afternoon Mr. Jones
Confirming receipt of your request. We most likely will need an extension; will keep you posted.
Regards,
Brad Stokes
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Jones <[OPRA #81122 email]>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2025 12:26 PM
To: CS.MB.OPRA <[MEL JIF request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Legal Invoices with accompanying emails for 2022 - Morris County MEL JIF for the Town of Boonton
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Dear Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund (Morris County),
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 invoices with accompanying sender's email (the actual email(s) from the vendor/attorney's office to the receiving individual at the Morris County MEL JIF, and then their respective included attachment(s), which would presumably be the invoices) for all legal services rendered and reimbursed by the Morris County JIF on behalf of the Town of Boonton from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022.
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,
Stephen Jones
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It is important to note that while our team of employee benefit professionals are very familiar with the design, administration and operation of employee benefit plans and the law applicable to those activities, PERMA is not the plan administrator or sponsor of any of the employee benefits arrangements offered/sponsored by our clients. All eligibility, enrollment, plan design, and plan administrative decisions and actions taken are at the discretion of the sponsoring entity. PERMA is not a law or tax firm and is not authorized to provide legal or tax advice. Our recommendations should not be construed as, nor are they intended to be, legal or tax advice. Further, the information contained herein is not intended by PERMA to be used, and it cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code that may be imposed on the taxpayer. PERMA encourages its clients to consult with legal counsel and/or tax professionals about the information contained in this communication.
Dear CS.MB.OPRA,
Mr. Stokes, thank you for the acknowledgement. I understand, please keep me updated. Thanks!
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Jones
Mr. Jones
As discussed below, we will need an extension to further look into this request. Accordingly, we will respond no later than Tuesday, October 14, 2005.
Regards,
Brad Stokes
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Jones <[OPRA #81122 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 3:43 PM
To: CS.MB.OPRA <[email address]>
Subject: RE: OPRA request - Legal Invoices with accompanying emails for 2022 - Morris County MEL JIF for the Town of Boonton
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________________________________
Dear CS.MB.OPRA,
Mr. Stokes, thank you for the acknowledgement. I understand, please keep me updated. Thanks!
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Jones
-----Original Message-----
Good Afternoon Mr. Jones
Confirming receipt of your request. We most likely will need an extension; will keep you posted.
Regards,
Brad Stokes
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[OPRA #81122 email]
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It is important to note that while our team of employee benefit professionals are very familiar with the design, administration and operation of employee benefit plans and the law applicable to those activities, PERMA is not the plan administrator or sponsor of any of the employee benefits arrangements offered/sponsored by our clients. All eligibility, enrollment, plan design, and plan administrative decisions and actions taken are at the discretion of the sponsoring entity. PERMA is not a law or tax firm and is not authorized to provide legal or tax advice. Our recommendations should not be construed as, nor are they intended to be, legal or tax advice. Further, the information contained herein is not intended by PERMA to be used, and it cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code that may be imposed on the taxpayer. PERMA encourages its clients to consult with legal counsel and/or tax professionals about the information contained in this communication.
Dear CS.MB.OPRA,
Mr. Stokes,
Your last communication requested an extension until yesterday, 10/14/25, which has come and now past.
What is the status of my OPRA request for the legal invoices and their accompanying emails?
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Jones
Mr. Jones
I apologize for the delay, we are confirming if there are any responsive documents to this request, we will respond back ASAP
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Jones <[OPRA #81122 email]>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2025 12:26 PM
To: CS.MB.OPRA <[MEL JIF request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Legal Invoices with accompanying emails for 2022 - Morris County MEL JIF for the Town of Boonton
[You don't often get email from [OPRA #81122 email]. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentific... ]
External Email - This email has come from outside of our company. Think before you click links or open attachments!
________________________________
Dear Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund (Morris County),
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 invoices with accompanying sender's email (the actual email(s) from the vendor/attorney's office to the receiving individual at the Morris County MEL JIF, and then their respective included attachment(s), which would presumably be the invoices) for all legal services rendered and reimbursed by the Morris County JIF on behalf of the Town of Boonton from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022.
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,
Stephen Jones
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Please deliver records electronically via email to the below UNIQUE address for all replies to this request:
[OPRA #81122 email]
Is [MEL JIF request email] the wrong address for OPRA requests to Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://opramachine.com/change_request/n...
Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
https://opramachine.com/help/officers
View this OPRA request & responses online:
https://opramachine.com/request/legal_in...
Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will be delayed.
If you find this service useful as an OPRA custodian, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's website.
"OPRAmachine’s mission is to give people easy and affordable access to New Jersey public records.
For more information, contact us at: (732) 707-1628 or PO Box 3180, New Brunswick, NJ 08903."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
It is important to note that while our team of employee benefit professionals are very familiar with the design, administration and operation of employee benefit plans and the law applicable to those activities, PERMA is not the plan administrator or sponsor of any of the employee benefits arrangements offered/sponsored by our clients. All eligibility, enrollment, plan design, and plan administrative decisions and actions taken are at the discretion of the sponsoring entity. PERMA is not a law or tax firm and is not authorized to provide legal or tax advice. Our recommendations should not be construed as, nor are they intended to be, legal or tax advice. Further, the information contained herein is not intended by PERMA to be used, and it cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code that may be imposed on the taxpayer. PERMA encourages its clients to consult with legal counsel and/or tax professionals about the information contained in this communication.
Dear CS.MB.OPRA,
Mr. Stokes, it has been almost a month, what does “ASAP” exactly mean?, it is not a date, to you it could mean another 30 days and to me it could mean today.
Your response is not acceptable.
Legal invoices are an example of an OPRA request type that is to be “readily available”.
Please respond with an appropriate response.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Jones
Dear CS.MB.OPRA,
Mr. Stokes,
It was a pleasure to speak with you this morning.
To recap, during our phone conversation you stated there were no records for 2022 that you have been able to locate. You indicated the records I seek would be in possession of the Town of Boonton, as the MEL JIF no longer covers certain liability cases.
I advised that the Town of Boonton also indicated they had no such records. You agreed you would continue your search on your end.
I further advised I was seeking the same records requested for the successive years of 2023, 2024, and 2025 and was going to follow up with separate requests for those years to you. You stated you would also search for those available records (2023-2025) as a part of this current OPRA request, and respond no later than one (1) week from today, 10/24/2025, with a final result on all that I have requested, to which I agreed.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Jones
Mr. Jones
As a follow-up to our conversation last week, I contacted the claims administrator for the Morris JIF, Claims Solutions; they confirmed to me that there are no responsive records from 2022 to present for your request.
Regards,
Brad Stokes
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Jones <[OPRA #81122 email]>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2025 9:53 AM
To: CS.MB.OPRA <[email address]>
Subject: Internal review of OPRA request - Legal Invoices with accompanying emails for 2022 - Morris County MEL JIF for the Town of Boonton
External Email - This email has come from outside of our company. Think before you click links or open attachments!
________________________________
Dear CS.MB.OPRA,
Mr. Stokes,
It was a pleasure to speak with you this morning.
To recap, during our phone conversation you stated there were no records for 2022 that you have been able to locate. You indicated the records I seek would be in possession of the Town of Boonton, as the MEL JIF no longer covers certain liability cases.
I advised that the Town of Boonton also indicated they had no such records. You agreed you would continue your search on your end.
I further advised I was seeking the same records requested for the successive years of 2023, 2024, and 2025 and was going to follow up with separate requests for those years to you. You stated you would also search for those available records (2023-2025) as a part of this current OPRA request, and respond no later than one (1) week from today, 10/24/2025, with a final result on all that I have requested, to which I agreed.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Jones
-----Original Message-----
Mr. Jones
I apologize for the delay, we are confirming if there are any responsive documents to this request, we will respond back ASAP
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Please use this UNIQUE email address for all replies to this request and no other:
[OPRA #81122 email]
Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
https://opramachine.com/help/officers
View this OPRA request & responses online:
https://opramachine.com/request/legal_in...
Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will be delayed.
If you find this service useful as an OPRA custodian, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's website.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
It is important to note that while our team of employee benefit professionals are very familiar with the design, administration and operation of employee benefit plans and the law applicable to those activities, PERMA is not the plan administrator or sponsor of any of the employee benefits arrangements offered/sponsored by our clients. All eligibility, enrollment, plan design, and plan administrative decisions and actions taken are at the discretion of the sponsoring entity. PERMA is not a law or tax firm and is not authorized to provide legal or tax advice. Our recommendations should not be construed as, nor are they intended to be, legal or tax advice. Further, the information contained herein is not intended by PERMA to be used, and it cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code that may be imposed on the taxpayer. PERMA encourages its clients to consult with legal counsel and/or tax professionals about the information contained in this communication.