Request for email logs for Lisa Kontos
Dear Ridgewood Public School District,
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: Email logs for Lisa Kontos, Director of the Ridgewood Public Schools Infant/Toddler Development Center, for the periods July 1, 2020 through August 30, 2020 and January 1, 2021 and February 12, 2021.
Yours faithfully,
Anonymous
As of December 1st, 2020 please contact Joann Khoury-Frias, Acting
Business Administrator, at [email address] or Julie Yohana,
Assistant to the Business Administrator and IT Supervisor, at
[email address] for assistance.
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Antoinette Kelly,CPA
School Business Administrator
Board Secretary
Ridgewood Public Schools
49 Cottage Place
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Phone: 201-670-2700 Ext10503
Email:[email address]
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RECIPIENT(S).*
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Thank you.
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**NOTICE**:
*You are advised that e-mail correspondence and attachments
between the public and the Ridgewood Board of Education are obtainable by
any person who files a request under the NJ Open Public Records Act (OPRA)
unless it is subject to a specific OPRA exception. You should have no
expectation that the content of e-mails sent to or from school district
e-mail addresses, or between the public and school district officials and
employees, will remain private.*
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Dear Ridgewood Public School District,
Please forward this request to the current Ridgewood Public Schools Business Administrator, Mr. Scott Bisig, [email address]
Yours faithfully,
Anonymous
As of December 1st, 2020 please contact Joann Khoury-Frias, Acting
Business Administrator, at [email address] or Julie Yohana,
Assistant to the Business Administrator and IT Supervisor, at
[email address] for assistance.
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Antoinette Kelly,CPA
School Business Administrator
Board Secretary
Ridgewood Public Schools
49 Cottage Place
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Phone: 201-670-2700 Ext10503
Email:[email address]
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*THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE (E-MAIL AND ANY ATTACHMENTS) IS
INTENDED ONLY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE DESIGNATED
RECIPIENT(S).*
If any reader of this message is not an intended recipient
or any agent responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient, you
are hereby notified that you have received this document in error, and that
any review, dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this
message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please
notify us immediately by reply e-mail message or by telephone and delete
the original message from your e-mail system and/or computer database.
Thank you.
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
**NOTICE**:
*You are advised that e-mail correspondence and attachments
between the public and the Ridgewood Board of Education are obtainable by
any person who files a request under the NJ Open Public Records Act (OPRA)
unless it is subject to a specific OPRA exception. You should have no
expectation that the content of e-mails sent to or from school district
e-mail addresses, or between the public and school district officials and
employees, will remain private.*
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Please be advised with size of this OPRA request the Ridgewood Board of Education is asking additional 10 days to finish complaining the requested information.
Respectfully,
Scott T. Bisig, M.Ed.
RWBOE B.A.
Dear Scott T. Bisig,
Thank you for your acknowledgement of this request. As it's been a while since the original request was made it would be most appreciated if you could extend the date of the requested email logs to the present. If that is not possible, please advise and I will make a separate request for February 13 - 24.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous
Dear Scott T. Bisig,
I would appreciate an update on my request and an answer to my last communication from February 24th.
This request was originally filed on February 12th, almost a month ago. I heard from you on February 24th asking for a 10 day extension. I responded by asking whether we could then extend the dates for my request for email logs to include the extra days you were taking to comply.
It is now 4:00pm on the 10th business day since you made your request and I have not received an answer to my question or my OPRA request. Time is of the essence and I ask that you please respond.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous
Hi Anonymous,
The required redactions that needed to be accomplished were sent to the
district attorney for OPRA compliance redactions. I will follow up
tomorrow and see the status.
Be Safe,
Scott Bisig
Dear Scott Bisig,
Thank you for your prompt reply, although I find it a bit confusing. You sent the results of my OPRA request to the district attorney? Do you mean the school board attorney? The rules are pretty simple as far as redactions are concerned. I've never heard of anyone sending them to an attorney, especially for something as simple as email logs.
I don't mean to be difficult, but it's been a month already. At some point this information will no longer be useful and a delay to this extent is simply not justified.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous
Hi,
The OPRA request is being processed and vetted through the district's
legal counsel for OPRA complianances; I will reach out again to gain an
up-date.
Sorry for the delay,
Respectfully,
Scott Bisig, M.E.d
VIA E-MAIL
Anonymous
Re: Open Public Records Act Request
Dear Sir/Madam:
The Ridgewood Board of Education (“Board”) received your Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) request which seeks the following records:
Email logs for Lisa Kontos, Director of the Ridgewood Public Schools Infant/Toddler Development Center, for the period July 1, 2020 through August 30, 2020 and January 1, 2021 and February 12, 2021.
The Board has identified 194 pages of records responsive to your request. Please note that personal e-mail addresses have been redacted to protect the individuals’ reasonable expectation of privacy. See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 (providing 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 . . .”); Kemery v. Gloucester Twp. Fire District No. 4 (Camden), GRC Complaint No. 2014-290 (2016) (holding that the records custodian properly redacted the personal e-mail address of the Fire Chief); and Wolosky v. Somerset Cty., 2017 WL 1179852 (App. Div. 2017) (holding that the County properly redacted the e-mail and home addresses from the documents provided to the requestor).
Due to the size of the file, please paste the following Dropbox link in your browser to access the documents:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1j355yi8wz5pix...
Your OPRA request is now deemed answered and closed.
Very truly yours,
Scott Bisig
Business Administrator/Board Secretary
Dear Scott T. Bisig,
Thank you very much! Your efforts are appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Anonymous