Good afternoon:

I am following-up on the response to the following portions of your OPRA
request which is listed below.

Request: "I would like how much the parking authority salary and benefits
is for the years 2022 2023 and 2024"

Response: In order for the city’s Payroll Department to respond to this
portion of the request, kindly provide the name(s) of the employee(s) for
which records are sought.

Request: "Also, how many tickets and how much revenue was collected in
2022 2023 and 2024"

Response: As submitted, this portion of the request is improper and
overbroad.

A party requesting access to a public record under OPRA must specifically
describe the document sought. Bent v. Twp. of Stafford Police Dep't,
Custodian of Records, 381 N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005); Gannett New
Jersey Partners, LP v. Cty. Of Middlesex, 379 N.J. Super. 205, 213 (App.
Div. 2005); MAG Entm't, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375
N.J. Super. 534, 546-49 (App. Div. 2005). A proper request under OPRA must
identify with reasonable clarity those documents that are desired.  Bent,
381 N.J. Super. at 37; see also Burke v. Ocean Cty., 2013 WL 6169154, at
*3 (App. Div. Nov. 26, 2013) (differentiating a proper OPRA request from
broad civil discovery).

Additionally, OPRA “is not intended as a research tool ... to force
government officials to identify and siphon useful information.”  See Bent
v. Twp. of Stafford Police Dep't, Custodian of Records, 381 N.J. Super.
30, 37 (App. Div. 2005) (quoting MAG Entm't, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic
Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534, 546-49 (App. Div. 2005).  A records
custodian is not required “to conduct research among its records ... and
correlate data from various government records in the custodian's
possession.”  Id. To qualify under OPRA, the request must reasonably
identify a record and not generally seek data, information or statistics."

Kindly re-submit this portion of the request setting forth the specific
identifiable government record(s) that you are seeking.

Thank you.

Eddie Lax

Keyboarding Clerk 4
City Clerk’s Office

City of Atlantic City

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