Please be advised that we are in receipt of your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request.

The Township of Plumsted received your OPRA request on July 13, 2023. As such, the seven (7) business day deadline to respond to your request is July 24, 2023. This response to your request for "Meeting Minutes in which Rogers Ramirez has provided public comment" is being provided to you on the same business day as the custodian's receipt of said request.

Your request for "Meeting Minutes in which Rogers Ramirez has provided public comment" does not identify a specific date range and is overly broad. You must provide a specific date range for the records you are requesting.

If a request is overly broad, a custodian may deny access pursuant to the following court decisions: MAG Entm’t, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534 (App. Div. 2005), Bent v. Stafford Police Dep’t, 381 N.J. Super. 30 (App. Div. 2005), N.J. Builders Ass’n v. N.J. Council on Affordable Hous., 390 N.J. Super. 166 (App. Div. 2007), and Schuler v. Borough of Bloomsbury, GRC Complaint No. 2007-151 (February 2009).

A custodian may also seek clarification of a broad or unclear request. The custodian's request for clarification must be in writing, within seven (7) business days of receipt of the request. If a custodian seeks clarification of an OPRA request, the response time clock stops until the requestor provides a response to the custodian. Upon receipt of the requestor's clarification, the statutory response time begins anew.

Example of an overly broad request: “Any and all records related to the construction of the new high school.”

Example of a valid request: “Any and all e-mails between Jane Doe and John Smith regarding the construction of the new high school from January 1, 2009 to February 28, 2009.”

A custodian is obligated to search her files to find the identifiable government records listed in an OPRA request. A custodian is not required to research her files to figure out which records, if any, might be responsive to a broad and unclear OPRA request.

Please provide a date range for your request for "Meeting Minutes in which Rogers Ramirez has provided public comment." Failure to provide written clarification of your request for said meeting minutes will result in the closure of the OPRA request for the "Meeting Minutes in which Rogers Ramirez has provided public comment." .

The remainder of your requests will be forwarded to the relevant office holding the records in order to ascertain if there are records that are responsive to the remainder of your requests.

Thank you,

Nadene

Nadene M. Cicero, RMC, CMR
Deputy Municipal Clerk/Deputy Registrar
Township of Plumsted
121 Evergreen Road
New Egypt, NJ   08533
609-758-2241 ext. 130
609-758-0123 (Fax)
[email address]

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To whom it may concern:

Attached please find the OPRA response to your request for:

"Any Police Reports involving Rogers Ramirez from 2005 through 2023"

Please note:

For your request for "Meeting Minutes in which Rogers Ramirez has provided public comment", please see below email.

For your request for "Emails from Rogers Ramirez to the township clerk, Dominick Cuozzo, Leonard Grilletto and Michael Hammerstone 2020-present day", we will email you as soon as we receive any information.

Susan

Susan P. Smith
Records Clerk
Plumsted Township

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Good afternoon,

In response to your OPRA request for "Emails from Rogers Ramirez to the township clerk, Dominick Cuozzo, Leonard Grilletto and Michael Hammerstone 2020-present day", please see the attached.

Please note:

For your request for "Meeting Minutes in which Rogers Ramirez has provided public comment", please see below email.

Thank you.

Susan

Susan P. Smith
Records Clerk
Plumsted Township

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