Something Stinks in Mount Laurel?! Slimy Steve is Back!!!
Dear Mount Laurel 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:
1) Copies of email, text message, iMessage, SMS message, RCS message, Signal message, Telegram message, WhatsApp message, and other written correspondences, including on personal devices, sent or received by employee Meredith Riculfy, for the time period of January 1, 2025 through the present, containing any of the search terms "Steglik", "SS", "SJS", or "deputy mayor", AND any of the following search terms: "harass", "harassment", "harassed", "discrimination", "discriminated", "discriminate" or "hostile". Please direct Meredith Riculfy to certify that she searched her personal devices, as required by Vele vs. Borough of Englewood Cliffs, App. Div. Docket No. A-3905-2.
2) Copies of email, text message, iMessage, SMS message, RCS message, Signal message, Telegram message, WhatsApp message, and other written correspondences, including on personal devices, sent or received by employee Ashlyn Grisetti, for the time period of January 1, 2025 through the present, containing any of the search terms "Steglik", "SS", "SJS", or "deputy mayor", AND any of the following search terms: "harass", "harassment", "harassed", "discrimination", "discriminated", "discriminate" or "hostile". Please direct Ashlyn Grisetti to certify that she searched her personal devices, as required by Vele vs. Borough of Englewood Cliffs, App. Div. Docket No. A-3905-2.
3) Copies of email, text message, iMessage, SMS message, RCS message, Signal message, Telegram message, WhatsApp message, and other written correspondences, including on personal devices, sent or received by mayor/deputy mayor/councilman Stephen Steglik, for the time period of January 1, 2025 through the present, containing any of the following search terms: "unwanted", "unsolicited", "touch", "touching", "touched", "kissed", "kiss", "kissing", "squeezed", "squeeze", "pinch", "pinched", "BBL", "slap", or "slapped". Please direct Stephen Steglik to certify that he searched his personal devices, as required by Vele vs. Borough of Englewood Cliffs, App. Div. Docket No. A-3905-2.
Do not respond to the above requests collectively - provide a separate response to each of the requests.
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,
Mayor Muller's Minions
Dear Requestor:
Mount Laurel Township received your January 6, 2026 OPRA and common law right of access request seeking the below categories of materials. The Township provides this timely response.
Records requested:
1) Copies of email, text message, iMessage, SMS message, RCS message, Signal message, Telegram message, WhatsApp message, and other written correspondences, including on personal devices, sent or received by employee Meredith Riculfy, for the time period of January 1, 2025 through the present, containing any of the search terms "Steglik", "SS", "SJS", or "deputy mayor", AND any of the following search terms: "harass", "harassment", "harassed", "discrimination", "discriminated", "discriminate" or "hostile". Please direct Meredith Riculfy to certify that she searched her personal devices, as required by Vele vs. Borough of Englewood Cliffs, App. Div. Docket No. A-3905-2.
Response: Request denied. No responsive documents exist on public servers or personal devices.
2) Copies of email, text message, iMessage, SMS message, RCS message, Signal message, Telegram message, WhatsApp message, and other written correspondences, including on personal devices, sent or received by employee Ashlyn Grisetti, for the time period of January 1, 2025 through the present, containing any of the search terms "Steglik", "SS", "SJS", or "deputy mayor", AND any of the following search terms: "harass", "harassment", "harassed", "discrimination", "discriminated", "discriminate" or "hostile". Please direct Ashlyn Grisetti to certify that she searched her personal devices, as required by Vele vs. Borough of Englewood Cliffs, App. Div. Docket No. A-3905-2.
Response: Request denied. No responsive documents exist on public servers or personal devices.
3) Copies of email, text message, iMessage, SMS message, RCS message, Signal message, Telegram message, WhatsApp message, and other written correspondences, including on personal devices, sent or received by mayor/deputy mayor/councilman Stephen Steglik, for the time period of January 1, 2025 through the present, containing any of the following search terms: "unwanted", "unsolicited", "touch", "touching", "touched", "kissed", "kiss", "kissing", "squeezed", "squeeze", "pinch", "pinched", "BBL", "slap", or "slapped". Please direct Stephen Steglik to certify that he searched his personal devices, as required by Vele vs. Borough of Englewood Cliffs, App. Div. Docket No. A-3905-2.
Response: Request denied. No responsive documents exist on public servers or personal devices.
This completes your OPRA request. Because no records exist, no common law right of access analysis is required.
Thank you,
Meredith Riculfy, RMC/CMFO/CMR/QPA
Township Manager/Clerk
750 Centerton Road
Mount Laurel NJ 08054
856.234.0001 ext 1233
856.234.8240 fax