Residential building permits over the last 6 months
Dear Bethlehem Township,
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:
Residential building permits over the last 6 months
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,
Emily Anderson
Dear Emily -
We are in receipt of your OPRA Request. Is your OPRA Request in reference to a specific property? (I did not see an address indicated in your email, below). Please provide an address so that we may search our files. If you are requesting all residential building permits over the last 6 months, please be advised that your Request would be hereby denied, as it is overly broad in scope and would also require research, which is not required of municipalities under OPRA guidelines. Please advise.
Thank you,
Chris Dispenza
Township Clerk
-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Anderson <[OPRA #80276 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 2:32 PM
To: Christine Dispenza <[Bethlehem Township request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Residential building permits over the last 6 months
Dear Bethlehem Township,
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:
Residential building permits over the last 6 months
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,
Emily Anderson
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Hello, Emily -
As this office has not received further clarification from you regarding your request for 'Residential Building Permits over the last 6 months', please be advised that your OPRA request is hereby denied, for the reasons indicated below in my September 3, 2025 email.
Please consider this OPRA Request, as it pertains to documents held by Bethlehem Township, to now be closed.
Thank you,
Chris Dispenza
-----Original Message-----
From: Christine Dispenza
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 3:35 PM
To: Emily Anderson <[OPRA #80276 email]>
Cc: Anita Weingart <dep[Bethlehem Township request email]>
Subject: RE: OPRA request - Residential building permits over the last 6 months
Dear Emily -
We are in receipt of your OPRA Request. Is your OPRA Request in reference to a specific property? (I did not see an address indicated in your email, below). Please provide an address so that we may search our files. If you are requesting all residential building permits over the last 6 months, please be advised that your Request would be hereby denied, as it is overly broad in scope and would also require research, which is not required of municipalities under OPRA guidelines. Please advise.
Thank you,
Chris Dispenza
Township Clerk
-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Anderson <[OPRA #80276 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 2:32 PM
To: Christine Dispenza <[Bethlehem Township request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Residential building permits over the last 6 months
Dear Bethlehem Township,
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:
Residential building permits over the last 6 months
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,
Emily Anderson
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Please deliver records electronically via email to the below UNIQUE address for all replies to this request:
[OPRA #80276 email]
Is [Bethlehem Township request email] the wrong address for OPRA requests to Bethlehem Township? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url...
Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url...
View this OPRA request & responses online:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url...
Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will be delayed.
If you find this service useful as an OPRA custodian, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's website.
"OPRAmachine’s mission is to give people easy and affordable access to New Jersey public records.
For more information, contact us at: (732) 707-1628 or PO Box 3180, New Brunswick, NJ 08903."
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