Which request are you referring to?  I do not see it included in
this email.

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Good morning,
Please see the response below regarding your request.

Access to the requested information is denied as overbroad. N.J.S.A.
47:1A-1 et seq. requires the individual requesting access to communicative
records identify with specificity the employee drafting the specific
correspondence. See MAG Entm’t, LLC v. Div. of Alcohol Beverage Control,
375 N.J. Super. 534 (App. Div. 2005);The Court held that “[w]hile OPRA
provides an alternative means of access to government documents not
otherwise exempted from its reach, it is not intended as a research tool
litigants may use to force government officials to identify and siphon
useful information. Rather, OPRA simply operates to make identifiable
government records ‘readily accessible for inspection, copying, or
examination.’ N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.” (emphasis added). The Court further held
that “under OPRA, agencies are required to disclose only ‘identifiable’
government records not otherwise exempt . . . In short, OPRA does not
countenance open-ended searches of an agency's files.” Id. at 549
(emphasis added);  see also Bent v. Stafford Police Dep’t, 381 N.J. Super.
30 (App. Div. 2005): The Court affirmed the GRC’s decision (GRC Complaint
No. 2004-78) that the complainant’s request was broad and unclear (“any
and all”). The Council ruled that the information sought did not amount to
an identifiable government record. Here, you have a requested access to a
“a digital list of all employees hired by the district. Please include
their job title (non-abbreviated) and union affiliation, department they
work in, hire date, and salary. Please include full time staff, part time
staff, substitutes, or temporarily/seasonally employed workers. This list
can be broken up if one record does not exist containing all the requested
information. But please include all the requested information in the OPRA
request.” The district does not have a list for all employees hired, their
union affiliation, department they worked in, hire date, and salary. There
is no responsive document to produce to your request, and thus to satisfy
your request the district would be forced to siphon through its records,
research the requested information and compile the information into a
document responsive to your request. Furthermore, the district has hired
hundreds, if not thousands of employees since it was established, and your
request is left open ended to an indeterminate time period. As a result,
this request is overbroad. See Bent v. Stafford Police Dep’t, 381 N.J.
Super. 30 (App. Div. 2005): N.J. Builders Ass’n v. N.J. Council on
Affordable Housing., 390 N.J. Super. 166, 180 (App. Div. 2007): Schuler v.
Borough of Bloomsbury, GRC Complaint No. 2007-151 (Interim Order dated
December 19, 2007): Elcavage v. West Milford Twp. (Passaic), GRC Complaint
No. 2009-07 (April 2010): Burnett v. County. of Gloucester, 415 N.J.
Super. 506 (App. Div. 2010); Burke v. Brandes, 429 N.J. Super. 169 (App.
Div. 2012):

Access to the requested information is further denied because this is a
request for information as opposed to a document as required by N.J.S.A.
47:1A-1.1. As explained above, to respond to this request, the district
would be forced to research its documents, siphon useful information, and
create a list for this request. Matthews v. City of Atlantic City
(Atlantic), GRC Complaint No. 2008-123 (February 2009); Librizzi v. Twp.
of Verona Police Dep’t, GRC Complaint No. 2009-213 (August 2010); Goeckel
v. Chatham Borough Police Dep’t (Morris), GRC Complaint No. 2013-356 (July
2014); Blau v. Union Cnty., GRC Complaint No. 2003-75 (January 2005); Paff
v. v. Neptune Twp. Hous. Auth. (Monmouth), GRC Complaint No. 2010-307
(Interim Order dated April 25, 2012); Delbury v. Greystone Park
Psychiatric Hosp. (Morris), GRC Complaint No. 2013-240 (Interim Order
dated April 29, 2014).”

Access to the requested information is further denied as to satisfy this
request, the custodian would be required to research the district's files
to figure out which records, if any, might be responsive to the broad OPRA
request in accordance with MAG and N.J. Builders. Donato v. Twp. of Union,
GRC Complaint No. 2005-182 (February 2007): Verry v. Borough of South
Bound Brook (Somerset), GRC Complaint No. 2013-43 et seq. (Interim Page 26
Updated 08/2019 Order dated September 24, 2013).

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 Manchester Township Board of
Education 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 [1][email address], or at their web site at [2]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.

Respectfully,

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It was received.  The request is being reviewed by our attorney. I will
send you a response as soon as I hear back.

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I did hear back from our attorney.  While I do not have a report that
includes all the information you requested.  I do have a report I can send
you with most of this information.  I will send that out to you this
afternoon.

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To whom it may concern,
As per your request, I've attached a report that provides information on
active staff in the district, hire date, job title and salary.  We do not
have temporary or seasonal employees.  
Thank you

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