2024-0027
Date Received: 1/4/2024
Status: Received
Applicant: Robert Jablonski
Information Requested: This is a request for public records made
under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required
to fill out an official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this
message.
Records requested:
All police records involving Aryeh Zaks approximate age of 21 or
22 years old. Believed to have a Pennsylvania address and or a New
Jer sey address. He's believed to have this vehicle registered in
his name, PA registration LZX0262

Yours faithfully,

Robert Jablonski

Response: The Township of Lakewood received your Open Public
Records Act (OPRA) request on 1/4/2024. As such, the seven (7)
business day deadline to respond to your request is 1/16/2024.
This response to your request is being provided to you before the
1st business day after the custodian's receipt of said request.

Please be advised that OPRA is a request for a specific government
record. A proper request under OPRA must identify with reasonable
clarity those documents that are desired, and a party cannot
satisfy this requirement by simply requesting all of an agency's
documents on a given topic. See Bent v. Stafford Police
Department, 381 N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). OPRA is not a
research tool to force government entities to identify and siphon
off information.See Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381
N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). Your request does not identify
a specific government records but rather picks a topic and then
asks the Township to research whether or not any of these records
exist. As such, your request is an invalid OPRA request. When a
request is "complex" because it fails to specifically identify the
documents sought, then that request is not "encompassed" by OPRA.
See New Jersey Builders Association v. New Jersey Council on
Affordable Housing, 390 N.J.Super. 166, 180 (App. Div. 2007).

In regards to "All police records involving Aryeh Zaks approximate
age of 21 or 22 years old. ..."
please clarify your request to identify specifically what record
you are seeking. As previously noted, Township's are not required
to conduct research. Please note requests for "any and/or all"
records are not valid. Please see MAG Entm't LLC v. Div. of
Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534 (App. Div. 2005).

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2024-0027
Date Received: 1/4/2024
Status: Received
Applicant: Robert Jablonski
Information Requested: This is a request for public records made
under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required
to fill out an official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this
message.
Records requested:
All police records involving Aryeh Zaks approximate age of 21 or
22 years old. Believed to have a Pennsylvania address and or a New
Jer sey address. He's believed to have this vehicle registered in
his name, PA registration LZX0262

Yours faithfully,

Robert Jablonski

The Township had requested clarification of your request on
1/4/2024 with no response. At this time, your OPRA request is
deemed concluded since we did not receive the requested
clarification.

If you are still seeking additional records, please re-submit with
the requested information.
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