Dear Washington Township (Bergen),

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-6(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:

A list of any red light or blue light permits issued, maintained, renewed, or duplicated to any person by your municipality between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2023, including the document type, document number, issue date, the first name, middle name or initial, and last name, rank or title, license number, vehicle number, vehicle type, vehicle description, department or organization name, circumstances for issuance, and name and signature of person(s) approving. Documents, correspondences, letters, messages, emails, signed application forms, unsigned application forms, completed application forms, copies of the permits themselves, copies of training certificates, licenses, and records or documents generated in the process of any red light or blue light permits issued, maintained, renewed, or duplicated to any person by your municipality between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2023.

A list of vehicles that were issued to any individual for that individual’s regular use, including the make, model, year, license number, identification number, type, and description of the vehicle and to whom it was issued (name, department, title, rank), and circumstances for issuance, owned, leased, or provided by your municipality between July 31, 2019, and July 31, 2024

Any and all reports made to the municipality or contracted by the municipality to be made into the emergency services, law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services, first aid, rescue, emergency management organizations, in the timeframe of January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2023. This includes any studies or analysis of the actions or responses of the agencies.

List of all emergency calls in your municipality that were handled by an outside agency or mutual aide in the timeframe of July 31, 2019, and July 31, 2024.

any agreements entered or contracts signed by your municipality for the provision of emergency services in the timeframe of July 31, 2019, and July 31, 2024.

any awards, complaints, compliments, citations, comments, reports or commendations made regarding a first responder, police officer, dispatcher, EMT, paramedic, firefighter, code enforcement officer, law enforcement officer between June 30, 2014 to June 30, 2024. any accident reports, incident reports, aided reports, operations reports, internal affairs records, investigation reports, citations, summonses issued, charge sheets, disposition of charges, court records, legal actions, lawsuits filed, settlement agreements, judgements, CAD / dispatcher / police journal entry records, ambulance reports, patient care reports, fire department response reports, sobriety test results, total station diagrams, accident reconstruction diagrams and reports, 911 tapes, any dispatch calls, images, recordings, video recordings, surveillance video, dashboard camera video, body worn camera video of any incidents itself or any persons being interviewed by the police, and email or other written communications relating to any awards, complaints, compliments, citations, comments, reports made regarding a first responder, police officer, dispatcher, EMT, paramedic, firefighter, code enforcement officer, law enforcement officer between June 30, 2014 to June 30, 2024.

records regarding the administration of your municipality’s stipend, rewards, compensation, incentive or “Length of Service Awards Program” for volunteer personell from January 1, 2013 to June 31, 2024, to include a year by year list of persons, their title(s), department, amounts or descriptions of the award, any certification forms, application forms, certification lists, vesting documents, letters, emails, correspondences, agreements, contracts related to your municipality’s incentive programs for volunteers from January 1, 2013 to June 31, 2024.

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,

blueraspberry lemonade

Hello Madam:

thank you for the response. i am unable to accept or approve of any fees.

as i am a researcher and not someone who stands to profit, i cannot justify to myself to pay the fees you requested at this time.

also, as you only accept cash or check, it would defeat the purpose of anonymity to submit a payment.

I am noting that the OPRA law provides that requestors have the right to do so anonymously (or, in my case, pseudonymously), and provides that special charges are to be the exception not the norm.

please do send any records still that can be provided without charge. otherwise, i am no longer interested in those records that require a fee.

Yours sincerely,

blueraspberry lemonade