Dear Saddle River 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..

Records requested:

For a comprehensive understanding of the community's viewpoint and to foster transparent communication, please not only provide the specific numbers but also furnish the actual requests made by residents, delineated as follows:

a) The precise count of requests received by the Saddle River Board of Education (and a copy of the actual requests) from community members since January 1, 2022, advocating for the establishment of new send/receive agreements with Allendale, HoHoKus, Upper Saddle River, or any other district.

b) The individual number of requests (and a copy of the actual requests made) from community members during the same timeframe supporting the creation of a middle school within our district.

It is important that these numbers are provided separately and not aggregated to fully capture and understand the sentiments and perspectives of our residents.

(1) To the extent that any such records contain personally identifiable information related to any individual student, please redact that personally identifiable information prior to disclosure.
(2) To the extent that any such records are exempted from disclosure under OPRA, and also unavailable under the common law right of access, please provide a complete Vaughn index of all such records, disclosing “sufficient detail to prove the requestor ‘with as much information as possible to use in presenting his case’ and to enable the ‘decision-maker’s review of governmental records to determine whether they contain privileged material.’” Paff v. Division of Law, 412 N.J. Super. 140, 161 (App. Div. 2010).

Please acknowledge receipt of this message.

Yours faithfully,
Brian Hampel