Police OPRA Request
Dear Berkeley Township Police Depatment,
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:
Police Body worn camera footage of all motor vehicle accidents between 7-1 and 7-7-25
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.
The maximum authorized cost is $0.
I kindly request that any special service fee be waved as there is a significant public interest in this information
Yours faithfully,
Tony Michael
Yours faithfully,
Tony Michael
Dear requestor,
Please be advised that fulfillment of your request for body camera footage will require an extraordinary expenditure of time and effort. Production of the requested footage will require an estimated 15 hours to complete. The Records Bureau will review and redact the footage at a rate of pay of $24.64 per hour, which is the salary of the lowest paid employee qualified to perform the work for a charge of $369.60.
OPRA allows public agencies to impose special service charges whenever the nature, format, manner of collation, or volume of a government record embodied in the form of printed matter to be inspected, examined, or copied pursuant to this section is such that the record cannot be reproduced by ordinary document copying equipment in ordinary business size or when fulfilling a request requires an extraordinary expenditure of time and effort. See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.c. Special service charges must be based upon the actual direct cost of providing the copy or copies.
OPRA mandates that the requestor shall have the opportunity to review and object to the charge prior to it being incurred. See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.c. As such, a detailed estimate is provided below:
The total estimated special service charge is $369.60.
Kindly respond in writing with your acceptance or rejection of this estimated charge within five business days. If the Records Bureau does not hear from you or receive payment in five business days, we will consider this request completed and closed. We will not begin to process this request until we receive your written acceptance and a deposit of 50% of the total charge, or the amount of $184.80.
Regards,
Deborah A. Haughwout
Records Tech III
Traffic Safety
Berkeley Township Police Dept.
631 Pinewald Keswick Rd.
Bayville, NJ 08721
732-341-1132 ext. 2126
Fax 732-341-2688