Police Department records
Tyler M Neher made this OPRA request to Spring Lake Heights Borough Automatic anti-spam measures are in place for this older request. Please let us know if a further response is expected or if you are having trouble responding.
Dear Spring Lake Heights Borough,
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:
All records - including but not limited to police reports, body-worn camera recordings, sent emails, received emails, 911 call recordings, and associated documents - resultant from and connected to motor vehicle stops conducted by the Police Department from 00:00 on 01st May 2024 up to and including 23:59 on 01st June 2024 where the specific vehicle stopped was bearing New Jersey issued licence plate # K40PNB. This request is to include any and all interactions, regardless of any warnings/summonses being issued or not, between the Spring Lake Heights Borough Police Department in any capacity and a vehicle with the New Jersey issued licence plate #K40PNB.
This request includes overwhelmingly clear specifiers to facilitate the identification of the narrow set of records held with this crieteria and is asking for the delivery of well-established record types requestable in OPRA submissions - thus providing your agency the specifiers needed to sample an easily deliverable record set where the records are all of the type OPRA submissions are to be delivered on. Hopefully this helps make things easier and quicker.
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,
Tyler M Neher
Mr. Neher,
I am in receipt of your Open Public Records Request dated February 27,
2025 for the following:
All records - including but not limited to police reports, body-worn
camera recordings, sent emails, received emails, 911 call recordings, and
associated documents - resultant from and connected to motor vehicle stops
conducted by the Police Department from 00:00 on 01st May 2024 up to and
including 23:59 on 01st June 2024 where the specific vehicle stopped was
bearing New Jersey issued licence plate # K40PNB. This request is to
include any and all interactions, regardless of any warnings/summonses
being issued or not, between the Spring Lake Heights Borough Police
Department in any capacity and a vehicle with the New Jersey issued
licence plate #K40PNB.
Be advised there are no responsive records to this request.
Pursuant to the requirements of N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq (hereinafter “Open
Public Records Act” or OPRA) we herewith provide the following response to
your Open Public Records Act Request. Please note that the Custodian of
the Records has sought and is producing only those records defined as
follows:
“Government record” or “record” means 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”.
Please be advised that N.J.S.A. 47:1A-6 provides that a person who is
denied access to a government record by the custodian of the record, at
the option of the requestor, may institute a proceeding to challenge the
custodian's decision by filing an action in Superior Court which shall be
heard in the vicinage where it is filed by a Superior Court Judge who has
been designated to hear such cases because of that judge's knowledge and
expertise in matters relating to access to government records; or in lieu
of filing an action in Superior Court, file a complaint with the
Government Records Council established pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-7.
The right to institute any proceeding shall be solely that of the
requestor. Any such proceeding shall proceed in a summary or expedited
manner. The public agency shall have the burden of proving that the denial
of access is authorized by law. If it is determined that access has been
improperly denied, the court or agency head shall order that access be
allowed. A requestor who prevails in any proceeding shall be entitled to a
reasonable attorney's fee.
Very truly yours,
Janine Gillis
Borough Clerk
Janine Gillis, RMC, CMR
Borough Clerk
Assistant Borough Administrator
Certified Municipal Registrar
Borough of Spring Lake Heights
555 Brighton Avenue
Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey 07762
732.449.3500 phone
732.449.3535 fax