Dear Howell Township,

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:

For the period of time from January 1, 2023 through the date of your response, police records for Susan Fischer or Sue Fischer;

For the period of time from January 1, 2023 through the date of your response, police records for Ian Nadel;

For the period of time from January 1, 2023 through the date of your response, police records for John Leggio;

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,

Tommy Shelby, OBE, MP

Jill Abernathy, Howell Township

Good morning,

Please be advised that the OPRA request below has been refused as it is overly broad. Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(g). Your request for “police records” is overly broad – please remove this from your request and note the specific documents/records that you are requesting. A custodian is not required to research files to figure out which records, if any, might be responsive to a broad and unclear OPRA request. See Donato v. Township of Union.

When your updated form is received, I will be able to process the request.

Thank you.

JillAbernathy
Office of the Municipal Clerk
Township of Howell
4567 Route 9 North, 2nd Floor
Howell, NJ 07731
732-938-4500 ext. 2241

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