Dear Union City,

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-5(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: Pursuant to OPRA, I am requesting records identifying the Police Department’s current retention periods and/or retention schedules for the following types of records:

* Police incident and offense reports
* Arrest reports
* Computer-aided dispatch (CAD) records
* 911 call recordings
* Police radio/dispatch audio transmissions
* Body-worn camera footage
* In-car/dash camera footage
* CCTV or other surveillance footage maintained by the Department
* Photographs and other digital recording that could be considered evidence for both criminal and internal affair matters.

For each category, please provide any existing policy, schedule, directive, or other record showing how long the record is retained and when it is routinely deleted, destroyed, purged, or overwritten.

Electronic copies are preferred.

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,

Joe