Good Afternoon,
I wanted to reach out and update you regarding your OPRA request below. We politely request an extension of time to provide you with the requested documents. Presumably, we should be able to provide you with said documents by October 29, 2020. Please reply advising if this is satisfactory.

Thank you,
Ashley

Ashley Jolly, CMR
Deputy Clerk
Recycling Coordinator
Clean Communities Coordinator
Mansfield Township
3135 Route 206, South, Suite 1
Columbus, NJ 08022
609-298-0542 ext 1010

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Good Afternoon,

In your OPRA request below you had noted on number 8 (highlighted) the
date range of November 29, 2017 to present, yet above that all of the
dates were November 29, 2018. We just wanted to confirm that the 2017 date
was in fact correct on number 8 and following.

Please advise so our Police Department can continue their review.

Thank you,

Ashley  

S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey

123 Washington Street

Newark, New Jersey 07102-3094

p. 973-353-3159

October 13, 2020

Municipal Clerk for Municipal Police

RE: Open Public Records Act and Common Law Request Regarding
Implementation of the New Jersey Attorney General Immigrant Trust
Directive 2018-6

Dear Records Custodian,

Pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA –
N.J.S.A.47:1A-1, et seq.) and common law right of access, we write seeking
to obtain records related to how your department (herein referred to as
“the Department”) has implemented the New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir
Grewal’s Immigrant Trust Directive 2018-6 and how this agency works with
federal immigration enforcement officials. We ask that you please direct
this request to all appropriate offices, departments, and records
custodians within the Department that may supply any of the records sought
through this request.

A. Our Common Law Interest

The Immigrant Trust Directive intends to curtail state and local
participation in federal immigration enforcement, ensure effective
policing, and foster relationships between law enforcement agencies and
immigrant communities. As part of a scholarly research project, we, the
requestors, seek these documents in order to assess the degree to which
the Department is committed to implementing the directive and is in
compliance with public records request laws.

We the requesters are Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor and Dr. Peter Mancina.
Dean Cuison-Villazor is Vice Dean, Professor of Law, and Chancellor’s
Social Justice Scholar of the Rutgers Law School and Director of the
Center for Immigration Law, Policy, and Justice. She has written and
published extensively about non-cooperation policies or “sanctuary”
policies, which have been published in the Columbia Law Review, Minnesota
Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and UC Davis Law Review.
Dean Cuison-Villazor is also Director of the Center for Immigration Law,
Policy and Justice (CILPJ), which engages in interdisciplinary
scholarship, research, and advocacy focused on exploring more inclusive
immigration and citizenship laws.

Dr. Peter Mancina is Visiting Scholar in the Center for Immigration Law,
Policy, and Justice at Rutgers Law School, Researcher in the Department of
Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, and Research Associate in the
University of Oxford Centre for Criminology and Border Criminologies
Program. Dr. Mancina has examined the historical development of sanctuary
policy in the United States and police compliance with “sanctuary” laws at
the local, county, and state levels. He is author of the 2019 policy
implementation report Turning the Golden State into a Sanctuary State: A
Report on the Impact and Implementation of the California Values Act
(SB54).

We greatly appreciate your assistance in providing us the following
documents.

B. Requested Records

I. Policies, Regulations, Memorandum, Guidance, and Forms

1. All records of policies, regulations, memorandum, guidance, or forms
that the Department has adopted related to the implementation of the New
Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s Immigrant Trust Directive 2018-6
version 1 (issued on November 29, 2018) and version 2 (issued on March 15,
2019) , herein both versions referred to collectively as the “Directive.”
Date Range: November 29, 2018 to the present.

2. All records of policies, procedures, protocols, directives, general
orders that the Department has adopted regarding providing any form of
assistance to, undertaking joint operations with, or forming joint task
forces with the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (“CBP”), or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”
(including ICE Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”)).

Examples of such policies may pertain to how the Department a. books or
releases federal criminal or immigration detainees; transfers individuals
into federal custody; b. provides DHS, CBP, ICE, and HSI access to
department facilities, Department computers, information technology
networks, department databases; c. provides immigration agencies use of
Department offices, desk space, or space where they can carry out their
federal work; d. responds to federal requests for a notification of an
inmate’s release date, time, and place, as well as any personally
identifying information for the individual; e. detains individuals for the
purpose of enforcing immigration law; f. acts upon DHS, CBP, ICE, and HSI
administrative warrants; g. responds to federal immigration agency
requests to interview people in Department custody and provides access to
these individuals to carry out an interview; h. provides backup assistance
including but not limited to traffic control and perimeter security in the
event of an immigration enforcement action or emergency situation; i.
provides booking rosters, intake rosters, or lists of detainees in
Department detention facilities; j. asks members of the public, witnesses,
suspects, or those who have been arrested about immigration status
information; k. patrols U.S. national borders; l. processes requests for
T- and U-visa certifications; or m. submits Immigrant Alien Queries (IAQs)
to the ICE Law Enforcement Support Center (“ICE-LESC”) and acts upon
Immigrant Alien Responses (IARs) from the ICE-LESC as part of the State
Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) Date Range: November 29, 2018 to
the present.

II. Agreements, Contracts, or Memorandum of Understanding

3. All agreements, contracts, or Memorandum of Understanding, including
any addendum or renewal document between DHS, ICE, ICE-HSI, or CBP and the
Department. Date Range: November 29, 2018 to the present

III. Training Records

4. All records that the Department has used to train its members about the
Directive, including training materials, manuals, memorandums, and power
point presentations. Date range: November 29, 2018 to the present

5. Any training logs records that the Department has created to track the
completion of training of its employees in the Directive or
Directive-related Department policies. Date range: November 29, 2018 to
the present

IV. Incident Reports

6. All incident reports related to the Department providing any form of
assistance to CBP or ICE, (including HSI) as described in request number
2, participation in joint task forces, a 287g program, or any other form
of joint operation with CBP, or ICE (including HSI).

Date Range: November 29, 2018 to the present

7. All incident reports related to incidents when CBP or ICE, (including
HSI) arrested an individual on Department property immediately after they
were released from Department custody to the public. Date Range: November
29, 2018 to the present

V. Quantitative Data Reports Regarding Department Assistance to ICE and
CBP

8. All records (including electronically stored information in a database,
written reports, statistics, memoranda or other data) that provide the
number of instances when the Department accommodated an ICE or CBP request
for the Department to a. detain an individual b. transfer an individual to
ICE or CBP custody c. notify ICE or CBP of the person’s release from
Department custody d. provide backup assistance for an immigration
enforcement action e. provide backup assistance for an emergency situation
f. allow ICE or CBP to interview an individual in Department custody g.
participate in a joint operation with ICE or CBP; or h. any other form of
assistance to ICE or CBP Date Range: November 29, 2017 to the present

9. All reports, emails, and memorandum that explain the reason, purpose,
policy basis, or goal for which the Department accommodated ICE or CBP
requests for assistance outlined in request number 8. Date Range: November
29, 2017 to the present

10. All records (including electronically stored information in a
database, written reports, statistics, memoranda or other data), arrest
reports, CAD reports or similar records) that list a. the number of
individuals arrested during joint operations with DHS, ICE, or CBP; b. the
criminal charges brought against each individual that was arrested during
joint operations with DHS, ICE, or CBP; or c. the number of individuals
charged with civil immigration violations during joint operations with
DHS, ICE, or CBP.

Date Range: November 29, 2017 to the present

11. All records (including electronically stored information in a
database, written reports, statistics, memoranda or other data), that list
the number of people that the Department released to the public and who
were immediately arrested by ICE or CBP on Department property. Date
Range: November 29, 2017 to the present

VI. Detainee Movement Logs

12. All records that include the “movement history” logs of individuals in
Department custody for whom an I-247 detainer, notification request, or
transfer request was lodged. This may include records logging how
individuals are moved through different Department divisions, wings,
areas, programs, or Department facilities (ie. Booking, housing). Date
Range: November 29, 2017 to the present

VII. Communications Records

13. All communications (herein, “communications” refers to emails, texts,
faxes, letters, social media posts) about implementing the Directive in
the Department, how the Department interacts with or assists ICE and CBP,
or making inmate release information available to the public between
Department Command Staff or Supervising Staff and the following types of
Department employees:

a. Those who contribute to the development of department policy; b. Those
who directly interact with the public; c. Those who directly interact with
people in Department custody; and d. Those who directly interact with
federal immigration agencies Date Range: November, 29, 2018 to the present

14. All communications about implementing the Directive in the Department,
how the Department interacts with ICE and CBP, or making inmate release
information available to the public between Department Personnel and
individuals in the following external agencies:

a. ICE;

b. CBP;

c. The U.S. Department of Justice;

d. The White House;

e. The New Jersey Department of Justice; f. The Sheriffs Association of
New Jersey; or g. The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police
Date Range: November, 29, 2018 to the present We request that all
responsive records be sent as electronic files via email to [email
address]. If the Department cannot provide responsive documents to certain
requests above, please indicate the number of the request and the reason
for the denial.

As N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(i) provides that public agencies respond to OPRA
records requests within 7 days, I look forward to hearing from you within
this time.

Thank you in advance and we look forward to your response. Sincerely,

Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor

Vice Dean, Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar
Director, Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice Rutgers Law
School

123 Washington Street

Newark, NJ 07102

Phone number: (973) 353-3159

Email: [email address]

Dr. Peter Mancina

Visiting Scholar, Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice Rutgers
Law School

123 Washington Street

Newark, NJ 07102

Phone number: (415)-226-8714

Email: [email address]

FN 1 . The term “records” as used herein means records as broadly defined
by N.J.S.A.47:1A-1.1 and includes, “any paper, written or printed book,
document, drawing, map, plan, photograph, microfilm, data processed or
image processed document, information stored or maintained electronically
or by sound-recording or in a similar device, or any copy thereof, that
has been made, maintained or kept on file in the course of his or its
official business by any officer, commission, agency or authority of the
State or of any political subdivision thereof, including subordinate
boards thereof, or that has been received in the course of his or its
official business by any such officer, commission, agency, or authority of
the State or of any political subdivision thereof, including subordinate
boards thereof. The terms shall not include inter-agency or intra-agency
advisory, consultative, or deliberative material.” “Records” that we are
interested in obtaining are those that not only are stored in government
office locations, on government servers, or on government computers and
devices but also in private locations and storage facilities, on private
servers, on private computers and devices, in private email accounts, and
in public and private social media accounts.

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Yours faithfully,

Rose Cuison-Villazor

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Good Afternoon,

As per my previous email below, as well as, my two voicemails left on the
number listed below, we are seeking clarification on the dates needed. Are
you looking for November of 2017 and forward or November of 2018 and
forward? Please provide some clarification on this matter as soon as
possible. Additionally, please be advised that our Township Attorney and
Police Department are also reviewing your OPRA request. Furthermore, we
are seeking an extension of time for response, because of the amount of
information requested and the uncertainty of the dates.

Please feel free to contact our office with any questions.

Thank you,

Ashley

Ashley Jolly, CMR

Deputy Clerk

Recycling Coordinator

Clean Communities Coordinator

Mansfield Township

3135 Route 206, South, Suite 1

Columbus, NJ 08022

609-298-0542 ext 1010

From: Ashley Jolly
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 2:41 PM
To: [OPRA #17439 email]
Cc: Linda Semus <[email address]>
Subject: OPRA Regarding Implementation of the NJ Attorney General
Immigrant Trust Directive 2018-6

Good Afternoon,

In your OPRA request below you had noted on number 8 (highlighted) the
date range of November 29, 2017 to present, yet above that all of the
dates were November 29, 2018. We just wanted to confirm that the 2017 date
was in fact correct on number 8 and following.

Please advise so our Police Department can continue their review.

Thank you,

Ashley  

S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey

123 Washington Street

Newark, New Jersey 07102-3094

p. 973-353-3159

October 13, 2020

Municipal Clerk for Municipal Police

RE: Open Public Records Act and Common Law Request Regarding
Implementation of the New Jersey Attorney General Immigrant Trust
Directive 2018-6

Dear Records Custodian,

Pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA –
N.J.S.A.47:1A-1, et seq.) and common law right of access, we write seeking
to obtain records related to how your department (herein referred to as
“the Department”) has implemented the New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir
Grewal’s Immigrant Trust Directive 2018-6 and how this agency works with
federal immigration enforcement officials. We ask that you please direct
this request to all appropriate offices, departments, and records
custodians within the Department that may supply any of the records sought
through this request.

A. Our Common Law Interest

The Immigrant Trust Directive intends to curtail state and local
participation in federal immigration enforcement, ensure effective
policing, and foster relationships between law enforcement agencies and
immigrant communities. As part of a scholarly research project, we, the
requestors, seek these documents in order to assess the degree to which
the Department is committed to implementing the directive and is in
compliance with public records request laws.

We the requesters are Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor and Dr. Peter Mancina.
Dean Cuison-Villazor is Vice Dean, Professor of Law, and Chancellor’s
Social Justice Scholar of the Rutgers Law School and Director of the
Center for Immigration Law, Policy, and Justice. She has written and
published extensively about non-cooperation policies or “sanctuary”
policies, which have been published in the Columbia Law Review, Minnesota
Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and UC Davis Law Review.
Dean Cuison-Villazor is also Director of the Center for Immigration Law,
Policy and Justice (CILPJ), which engages in interdisciplinary
scholarship, research, and advocacy focused on exploring more inclusive
immigration and citizenship laws.

Dr. Peter Mancina is Visiting Scholar in the Center for Immigration Law,
Policy, and Justice at Rutgers Law School, Researcher in the Department of
Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, and Research Associate in the
University of Oxford Centre for Criminology and Border Criminologies
Program. Dr. Mancina has examined the historical development of sanctuary
policy in the United States and police compliance with “sanctuary” laws at
the local, county, and state levels. He is author of the 2019 policy
implementation report Turning the Golden State into a Sanctuary State: A
Report on the Impact and Implementation of the California Values Act
(SB54).

We greatly appreciate your assistance in providing us the following
documents.

B. Requested Records

I. Policies, Regulations, Memorandum, Guidance, and Forms

1. All records of policies, regulations, memorandum, guidance, or forms
that the Department has adopted related to the implementation of the New
Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s Immigrant Trust Directive 2018-6
version 1 (issued on November 29, 2018) and version 2 (issued on March 15,
2019) , herein both versions referred to collectively as the “Directive.”
Date Range: November 29, 2018 to the present.

2. All records of policies, procedures, protocols, directives, general
orders that the Department has adopted regarding providing any form of
assistance to, undertaking joint operations with, or forming joint task
forces with the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (“CBP”), or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”
(including ICE Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”)).

Examples of such policies may pertain to how the Department a. books or
releases federal criminal or immigration detainees; transfers individuals
into federal custody; b. provides DHS, CBP, ICE, and HSI access to
department facilities, Department computers, information technology
networks, department databases; c. provides immigration agencies use of
Department offices, desk space, or space where they can carry out their
federal work; d. responds to federal requests for a notification of an
inmate’s release date, time, and place, as well as any personally
identifying information for the individual; e. detains individuals for the
purpose of enforcing immigration law; f. acts upon DHS, CBP, ICE, and HSI
administrative warrants; g. responds to federal immigration agency
requests to interview people in Department custody and provides access to
these individuals to carry out an interview; h. provides backup assistance
including but not limited to traffic control and perimeter security in the
event of an immigration enforcement action or emergency situation; i.
provides booking rosters, intake rosters, or lists of detainees in
Department detention facilities; j. asks members of the public, witnesses,
suspects, or those who have been arrested about immigration status
information; k. patrols U.S. national borders; l. processes requests for
T- and U-visa certifications; or m. submits Immigrant Alien Queries (IAQs)
to the ICE Law Enforcement Support Center (“ICE-LESC”) and acts upon
Immigrant Alien Responses (IARs) from the ICE-LESC as part of the State
Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) Date Range: November 29, 2018 to
the present.

II. Agreements, Contracts, or Memorandum of Understanding

3. All agreements, contracts, or Memorandum of Understanding, including
any addendum or renewal document between DHS, ICE, ICE-HSI, or CBP and the
Department. Date Range: November 29, 2018 to the present

III. Training Records

4. All records that the Department has used to train its members about the
Directive, including training materials, manuals, memorandums, and power
point presentations. Date range: November 29, 2018 to the present

5. Any training logs records that the Department has created to track the
completion of training of its employees in the Directive or
Directive-related Department policies. Date range: November 29, 2018 to
the present

IV. Incident Reports

6. All incident reports related to the Department providing any form of
assistance to CBP or ICE, (including HSI) as described in request number
2, participation in joint task forces, a 287g program, or any other form
of joint operation with CBP, or ICE (including HSI).

Date Range: November 29, 2018 to the present

7. All incident reports related to incidents when CBP or ICE, (including
HSI) arrested an individual on Department property immediately after they
were released from Department custody to the public. Date Range: November
29, 2018 to the present

V. Quantitative Data Reports Regarding Department Assistance to ICE and
CBP

8. All records (including electronically stored information in a database,
written reports, statistics, memoranda or other data) that provide the
number of instances when the Department accommodated an ICE or CBP request
for the Department to a. detain an individual b. transfer an individual to
ICE or CBP custody c. notify ICE or CBP of the person’s release from
Department custody d. provide backup assistance for an immigration
enforcement action e. provide backup assistance for an emergency situation
f. allow ICE or CBP to interview an individual in Department custody g.
participate in a joint operation with ICE or CBP; or h. any other form of
assistance to ICE or CBP Date Range: November 29, 2017 to the present

9. All reports, emails, and memorandum that explain the reason, purpose,
policy basis, or goal for which the Department accommodated ICE or CBP
requests for assistance outlined in request number 8. Date Range: November
29, 2017 to the present

10. All records (including electronically stored information in a
database, written reports, statistics, memoranda or other data), arrest
reports, CAD reports or similar records) that list a. the number of
individuals arrested during joint operations with DHS, ICE, or CBP; b. the
criminal charges brought against each individual that was arrested during
joint operations with DHS, ICE, or CBP; or c. the number of individuals
charged with civil immigration violations during joint operations with
DHS, ICE, or CBP.

Date Range: November 29, 2017 to the present

11. All records (including electronically stored information in a
database, written reports, statistics, memoranda or other data), that list
the number of people that the Department released to the public and who
were immediately arrested by ICE or CBP on Department property. Date
Range: November 29, 2017 to the present

VI. Detainee Movement Logs

12. All records that include the “movement history” logs of individuals in
Department custody for whom an I-247 detainer, notification request, or
transfer request was lodged. This may include records logging how
individuals are moved through different Department divisions, wings,
areas, programs, or Department facilities (ie. Booking, housing). Date
Range: November 29, 2017 to the present

VII. Communications Records

13. All communications (herein, “communications” refers to emails, texts,
faxes, letters, social media posts) about implementing the Directive in
the Department, how the Department interacts with or assists ICE and CBP,
or making inmate release information available to the public between
Department Command Staff or Supervising Staff and the following types of
Department employees:

a. Those who contribute to the development of department policy; b. Those
who directly interact with the public; c. Those who directly interact with
people in Department custody; and d. Those who directly interact with
federal immigration agencies Date Range: November, 29, 2018 to the present

14. All communications about implementing the Directive in the Department,
how the Department interacts with ICE and CBP, or making inmate release
information available to the public between Department Personnel and
individuals in the following external agencies:

a. ICE;

b. CBP;

c. The U.S. Department of Justice;

d. The White House;

e. The New Jersey Department of Justice; f. The Sheriffs Association of
New Jersey; or g. The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police
Date Range: November, 29, 2018 to the present We request that all
responsive records be sent as electronic files via email to [email
address]. If the Department cannot provide responsive documents to certain
requests above, please indicate the number of the request and the reason
for the denial.

As N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(i) provides that public agencies respond to OPRA
records requests within 7 days, I look forward to hearing from you within
this time.

Thank you in advance and we look forward to your response. Sincerely,

Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor

Vice Dean, Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar
Director, Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice Rutgers Law
School

123 Washington Street

Newark, NJ 07102

Phone number: (973) 353-3159

Email: [email address]

Dr. Peter Mancina

Visiting Scholar, Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice Rutgers
Law School

123 Washington Street

Newark, NJ 07102

Phone number: (415)-226-8714

Email: [email address]

FN 1 . The term “records” as used herein means records as broadly defined
by N.J.S.A.47:1A-1.1 and includes, “any paper, written or printed book,
document, drawing, map, plan, photograph, microfilm, data processed or
image processed document, information stored or maintained electronically
or by sound-recording or in a similar device, or any copy thereof, that
has been made, maintained or kept on file in the course of his or its
official business by any officer, commission, agency or authority of the
State or of any political subdivision thereof, including subordinate
boards thereof, or that has been received in the course of his or its
official business by any such officer, commission, agency, or authority of
the State or of any political subdivision thereof, including subordinate
boards thereof. The terms shall not include inter-agency or intra-agency
advisory, consultative, or deliberative material.” “Records” that we are
interested in obtaining are those that not only are stored in government
office locations, on government servers, or on government computers and
devices but also in private locations and storage facilities, on private
servers, on private computers and devices, in private email accounts, and
in public and private social media accounts.

FN 2. Version 1: [1]https://web.archive.org/web/201905020003...

FN 3. Version 2:
[2]https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=ht...

Yours faithfully,

Rose Cuison-Villazor

References

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Good Morning,
I have reached out to our Police Department for any possible records as per your request. I apologize for the delayed response however, I had reached out to you a few times via phone & email and never received a response. I did a search and found that you did respond to the question on dates in December, which for some reason never made it to my inbox as it was stuck in my spam folder. I will get you a response as soon as possible and I do appreciate your patience on this matter.

Thank you,
Ashley

Ashley Jolly, CMR
Deputy Clerk
Recycling Coordinator
Clean Communities Coordinator
Mansfield Township
3135 Route 206, South, Suite 1
Columbus, NJ 08022
609-298-0542 ext 1010

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Good Evening,
Please see the attached as per your OPRA request.

Thank you,
Ashley

Ashley Jolly, CMR
Deputy Clerk
Recycling Coordinator
Clean Communities Coordinator
Mansfield Township
3135 Route 206, South, Suite 1
Columbus, NJ 08022
609-298-0542 ext 1010

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