RE: OPRA Abandoned/VACANT/Probate- Bergen County
Dear Ridgewood Village,
I appreciate your consideration of the following matter. Under OPRA and the Common Law Right of Access, I am requesting a current list of records for each of the following be delivered via e-mail in EXCEL format:
1) All abandoned/vacant residential properties (Property Class 2)
2) All condemned properties
3) All residential properties with delinquent taxes
4) All residential properties for which a Lis Pendens notice has been filed or that are currently in probate
5) All properties that are absentee-owned
6) All properties with delinquent water and sewer which date back up to 1 year, including amounts owed
7) All properties currently listed with water shut-off notice
8) All properties with code violations, including the type of violation
9) All properties with notices of abatement
Again, I appreciate your attention to this matter and thank you in advance for your help.
Yours faithfully,
B. Saint-Jean
Ben:
I have received your OPRA request. In the future, please send all OPRA requests to both me and my Deputy Village Clerk, Donna Jackson, at [email address]. In this way, your OPRA request will be processed in the most efficient manner possible.
Heather A. Mailander
Village Manager/Village Clerk
Village of Ridgewood
131 North Maple Ave.
Ridgewood, NJ 07451
[Ridgewood Village request email]
201-670-5500 ext. 203- Phone
201-652-7623 - Fax
In response to your OPRA request, please see the list of records attached:
1) No documents to provide.
2) No documents to provide.
3) See attached.
4) No documents to provide.
5) No documents to provide.
6) See attached.
7) No documents to provide.
8) No documents to provide.
9) No documents to provide.
Please note that information has been redacted in the documents provided
in accordance with OPRA Exemptions – N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 – Item 16
regarding unlisted telephone numbers and personal identification
information. N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 OPRA Exemptions Item #24 Privacy Interest
provides that “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…”
At this time, we will consider this request closed and our obligation
satisfied.
Joyce Magro
Clerk's Office
Village of Ridgewood
131 N. Maple Avenue
Ridgewood, NJ 07451
Phone: (201) 670-5500 x229
Fax: (201) 652-7623
Notice: You are advised that copies of correspondence, including e-mail
correspondence and attachments, between the public and the Village of
Ridgewood are obtainable by any person filing a request under the Open
Public Records Act (OPRA) unless subject to a specific OPRA exception.
There should be no expectation that the content of emails exchanged
between the public and municipal officials and employees will remain
private.