Liam McAtasney and Preston Taylor
ASK NJ Media made this OPRA request to Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office,
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 send your response in PDF form.
1. Copies of any criminal charge complaint(s), affidavit(s) of probable cause, and/or indictments, Mug Shot(s) against defendants Liam McAtasney and Preston Taylor.
2. Copies of any final judgement/disposition of the criminal charge complaint(s) that were filed against defendants Liam McAtasney and Preston Taylor.
Please include a Record Index with your response.
*A record index that identifies each record requested and the specific legal basis for a denial of access (including redactions) to each record.
Yours faithfully,
ASK NJ Media Co.
Attached please find records responsive to the below request.
Driver's license, social security, and telephone numbers are redacted in
accordance with N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.
Mug shots are withheld pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-9 and Executive Orders
9(e) (Hughes), 69 (Whitman), and 21 (McGreevey), which exempt "Fingerprint
cards, plates and photographs and other similar criminal investigation
records which are required to be made, maintained or kept by any State or
local governmental agency."
Dear Mary Juliano,
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 send your response in PDF form.
1. Copies of any police CAD report(s) with narrative(s), police incident reports, arrest report(s) against defendants Liam McAtasney and Preston Taylor.
Please include a Record Index with your response.
*A record index that identifies each record requested and the specific legal basis for a denial of access (including redactions) to each record.
Yours sincerely,
ASK NJ Media Co.
The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office is in receipt of the below Public
Record request. The deadline to respond to this request was extended to
July 17, 2020.
Attached please find arrest reports and CAD reports with social security,
driver's license, and phone numbers redacted in accordance with N.J.S.A.
47:1A-5. Vehicle registration numbers are redacted as a "confidential
personal identifier" in accordance with R. 1:38-7(a) and N.J.S.A. 47:1A-9.
Police incident reports normally are exempt from disclosure under OPRA as
"criminal investigatory records." N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1; see North Jersey
Media Group, Inc. v. Township of Lyndhurst, 229 N.J. 541, 569 (2017).
This particular case began with a report of an abandoned vehicle. It
initially was investigated as a possible suicide and/or missing person.
The very first police reports and the CAD reports, which responded to and
treated the victim's disappearance in this regard, are being provided to
you, as they arguably do not "pertain to a criminal investigation." North
Jersey Media Group, Inc. v. Township of Lyndhurst, 441 N.J. Super. 70,
104-07 (App. Div. 2015), rev'd on o.g., 229 N.J. 541 (2017). Police
reports that followed the earliest ones did pertain to a criminal
investigation, some "albeit in its earliest stages," and therefore are
exempt from disclosure. Id. at 104-05.
Phone, driver's license, and social security numbers are redacted from the
police reports in accordance with N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5. Vehicle registration
numbers are redacted as a "confidential personal identifier" in accordance
with R. 1:38-7(a) and N.J.S.A. 47:1A-9.