I will be out of the office starting on Friday, August 25, 2023 until
Friday, September 1, 2023.  I will return to work on Tuesday, September 5,
2023.  If you need immediate assistance, please contact John Hallanan,
Deputy City Clerk at 201-547-4892 or [email address].  Thank you. 

SEAN J. GALLAGHER, RMC, CMR

CITY CLERK / REGISTRAR

280 GROVE STREET, ROOM 118

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY 07302

201-547-4486

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Dear Calvin Vuong,

Thank you for registering with the Jersey City OPRA Center. Below you will
find your login and password information. Please log in to the [2]Open
Public Records Center to update any contact or password information and to
track the progress of your requests. 

Login: [OPRA #50666 email]
 
Password:  [3]Update Password
 
If you are a first time user and did not submit your request through the
open public records portal but are receiving this e-mail, an account has
been created for you where you can access, track and receive any documents
in response to your request.
 
Thank You,
 
Custodian of Records
Jersey City, NJ
 
 
 
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Dear Calvin Vuong:

Thank you for your interest in open public records of Jersey City OPRA
Center.  This will serve to acknowledge receipt of your Open Public
Records Act (OPRA) request.  Your request was received in this office on
8/28/2023.  Kindly refer to the reference number D003690-082823 when
communicating with our office in this regard.  Your request mentioned:

OPRA request - Police Reports, Forms, and Records Dear Jersey City,
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: Police
reports, forms, and all records available to the three police
incidents: # 21-221874; # 21-222981; # 21-224821. Yours faithfully,
Calvin Vuong

Your request will be forwarded to the relevant City department(s) to
locate the information you seek and to determine the volume and any costs
associated with satisfying your request. You will be contacted about the
availability and/or provided with copies of the records in question.
 PLEASE NOTE: The State Public Information Act does not require a
governmental body to create new information, to do legal research, or to
answer questions.

You can track and monitor the progress of your request at the link below
and you'll receive an email when your request has been completed. Again,
thank you for using the Jersey City OPRA Center.

Jersey City, NJ

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RE: OPEN PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST of August 28, 2023, Reference #
D003690-082823

Dear Calvin Vuong,

The City received a public information request from you on August 28,
2023. Your request mentioned:

OPRA request - Police Reports, Forms, and Records

Dear Jersey City,

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:

Police reports, forms, and all records available to the three police
incidents:
# 21-221874;
# 21-222981;
# 21-224821.

Yours faithfully,
Calvin Vuong

The City has located records from among those specifically identified in
your request.   They are available at this link:  

[2]Open Public Records Act - D003690-082823

Please note that redactions to the above have been made pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 which states, “a public agency has a responsibility and
an obligation to safeguard from public access a citizen’s personal
information with which it has been entrusted when disclosure thereof would
violate the citizen’s reasonable expectation of privacy” and/or N.J.S.A.
52:17C-10(a) which limits disclosure of  9-1-1 subscriber information to
that used for the “purpose of responding to emergency calls or for the
investigation of false or intentionally misleading reports of incidents
requiring emergency service.”

Unfortunately, your request also contained broad and/or vague language
including the catch-all phrase(s): "forms" and "all records
available" which fail to identify specific records, as is required for a
valid OPRA request.  

Please be advised that “[t]he purpose of OPRA ‘is to make identifiable
[non-exempt] government records 'readily accessible for inspection,
copying, or examination’.” Jersey Builders Ass’n v. New Jersey Council on
Affordable Housing, 390 N.J. Super. 166, 176 (App. Div. 2007). “OPRA does
not countenance open-ended searches of an agency's files.” MAG, supra. 375
N.J. Super. at 549. “A party requesting access to a public record must
specifically describe the document sought.” Bent v. Stafford Twp., 381
N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005).  

The City has provided here those records that were sufficiently
identifiable under OPRA, namely the police reports.   If you wish to have
other records, you are free to submit separate requests  more precisely
specifying the types of records you seek. 

However, this request is now being closed.  

Sincerely,
Jeremy Jacobsen, Esq.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
City of Jersey City - Dept. of Law 
 
 
 
 
 
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