Media monitoring since 2016
Dear West Cape May Borough,
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:
What media monitoring do you conduct?
Can you publish any reports you have produced?
What is the cost per year?
Yours faithfully,
Abdul Hai
Good Morning,
The Borough of West Cape May received your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request dated November 7, 2020. The official Records Custodian, Suzanne Schumann, received your OPRA request on November 10, 2020. As such, the seven (7) business day deadline to respond to your request is November 20, 2020. This response to your request is being provided to you on the same business day after the custodian’s receipt of said request.
Your OPRA request sought access to the following:
What media monitoring do you conduct?
Can you publish any reports you have produced?
What is the cost per year?
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Suzanne Schumann, RMC/CMR
Municipal Clerk
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Borough of West Cape May
732 Broadway
West Cape May, New Jersey 08204
Office: (609) 884-1005 ext 100
Facsimile: (609) 898-0888
Email: [email address]
Website: www.westcapemay.us
Dear Suzanne Schumann,
Hi I am looking for any documents you may have produced since 2016 which detail any media monitoring which you may have conducted?
By this I mean looking at what the local media think of the City as well as measuring policy outcomes.
Yours sincerely,
Abdul Hai
Good Morning,
No such documents exist.
Thank you.
Suzanne Schumann, RMC/CMR
Municipal Clerk
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Borough of West Cape May
732 Broadway
West Cape May, New Jersey 08204
Office: (609) 884-1005 ext 100
Facsimile: (609) 898-0888
Email: [email address]
Website: www.westcapemay.us