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Mount Olive Township Police Department Records Request

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Dear Mount Olive Township,

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:
Incident reports including officer narrative that have been coded as shoplifting/retail theft from 06/01/2024 to 06/14/2024.
If possible, please send the results of the request electronically to [email address].

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,

Ciaran Johnson

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Gouveia, Susan, Mount Olive Township

Received.

Susan Gouveia
Susan Gouveia, Township Clerk
Township of Mount Olive
(973) 691-0900, ext. 7291

-----Original Message-----
From: Ciaran Johnson <[OPRA #77306 email]>
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2025 7:14 AM
To: Clerk <[Mount Olive Township request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Mount Olive Township Police Department Records Request

Dear Mount Olive Township,

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:
Incident reports including officer narrative that have been coded as shoplifting/retail theft from 06/01/2024 to 06/14/2024.
If possible, please send the results of the request electronically to [email address].

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,

Ciaran Johnson

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Gouveia, Susan, Mount Olive Township

Good morning,

 

We are in receipt of your request for records dated June 6, 2025. These
Investigation Reports are exempt under the criminal investigatory records
exemption.  See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1; N. Jersey Media Grp., Inc. v. Twp. of
Lyndhurst, 229 N.J. 541, 569 (2017) (concluding that “dash-cam recordings”
and “detailed investigative reports and witness statements” that
“pertain[] to an investigation into actual or potential violations of
criminal law . . . fall within the criminal investigatory records
exception.”); Janeczko v. NJ Department of Law and Public Safety, Division
of Criminal Justice, GRC Complaint Nos. 2002-79 and 2002-80 (June 2004)
(“[C]riminal investigatory records include records involving all manner of
crimes, resolved or unresolved, and include information that is part and
parcel of an investigation, confirmed and unconfirmed.”), aff’d Janeczko
v. Division of Criminal Justice, Docket No. A-309-03T1 (App. Div. May 26,
2004).

 

Sincerely,

 

Susan Gouveia

Susan Gouveia, Township Clerk

Township of Mount Olive

204 Flanders-Drakestown Road

PO Box 450

Budd Lake, NJ  07828

(973) 691-0900, ext. 7291

[1]www.mountolivetwpnj.org

 

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