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Dear West Windsor-Plainsboro School District,
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:
All fire alarm and fire extinguisher invoices from 2019 to present
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,
Tony Michael
Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office with
limited access to email and will return on Oct. 23, 2025. I will
respond to your email upon my return.
If this is an emergency and you need immediate assistance, please
contact me on my cell.
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Kia Bergman
Director of Communications
West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District
[West Windsor-Plainsboro School District request email]
(609) 716-5000 ext. 5046
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Dear Mr. Michael,
I am responding as the records custodian for the West Windsor-Plainsboro
Regional School District Board of Education (“Board”). This email is in
response to your OPRA Request that was submitted through OPRAMachine to me
on Oct. 21, 2025. The seventh business day deadline to respond to your
OPRA Request expires Oct. 30, 2025. This response is being provided within
that time frame.
OPRA defines a “government record” of a public entity as “any paper,
written or printed book, document, drawing, map, plan, photograph,
microfilm, data processed or image processed document, information stored
or maintained electronically or by sound-recording or in a similar device,
or any copy thereof, that has been made, maintained or kept on file in the
course of his or its official business.” N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1. Accordingly,
the Board is required to produce only those records which it maintains in
the official course of business and which are not otherwise exempt from
production. Pursuant to the definition of a government record, a public
entity is not required by OPRA to research information and/or create
records that do not exist in response to OPRA requests. See e.g., Mag
Entertainment, LLC v. Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J.
Super. 537 (App. Div. March 2005).
Your specific request was as follows.
“All fire alarm and fire extinguishers invoices from 2019 to present”
Please see the attached reports of invoices paid for fire alarm and fire
extinguishers for the time period specified.
If your request for access to a government record has been denied or
unfilled within the seven (7) business days required by law, you have a
right to challenge the decision by the District to deny access. At your
option, you may either institute a proceeding in the Superior Court of New
Jersey or file a complaint with the Government Records Council (GRC) by
completing the Denial of Access Complaint Form. You may contact the GRC
by toll-free telephone at 866-850-0511, by mail at P.O. Box 819, Trenton,
NJ 08625, or by e-mail at [1][email address], or at their website at
[2]www.state.nj.us/grc. The GRC can also answer other questions about the
law. All questions regarding complaints filed in Superior Court should be
directed to the Court Clerk in your County.
Sincerely,
Kia Bergman
Custodian of Records