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Dear Rutherford Borough,

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:

Copies of ALL invoices for all fire extinguisher, kitchen fire suppression and fire alarm services from 2020 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

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Margaret M. Scanlon, Rutherford Borough

Your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request was received and will be acted upon appropriately.

For your reference- if you responded yes to "You Will" use the requested government records for commercial purpose, as defined in N.J.S.A. 47:1A.1, the response time frame may be up to fourteen (14) business days.

Margaret “Missy” Scanlon, RMC
Borough Clerk
BOROUGH OF RUTHERFORD
176 Park Avenue
Rutherford, NJ 07070
P: 201-460-3001

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Michael <[OPRA #89380 email]>
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2026 11:12 PM
To: Margaret M. Scanlon <[Rutherford Borough request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Spending

****CAUTION****
This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

Dear Rutherford Borough,

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:


Copies of ALL invoices for all fire extinguisher, kitchen fire suppression and fire alarm services from 2020 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

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Please deliver records electronically via email to the below UNIQUE address for all replies to this request:

[OPRA #89380 email]

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Margaret M. Scanlon, Rutherford Borough

April 17, 2026

Tony Michael
Via email

RE: OPRA NO. 26-170

In response to your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) submission received on April 6, 2026, requesting “ALL invoices for all fire extinguisher, kitchen fire suppression and fire alarm services from 2020 to present” please be advised that this request is being denied as overly broad. Specifically, according to the following case law, if an Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) request does not name specifically identifiable records or is overly broad, a custodian may deny access pursuant to the following court decisions: MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super 534 (App. Div. 2005), Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381 N.J. Super. 30 (App. Div. 2005), New Jersey Builders Association v. New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing, 390 N.J. Super. 166 (App. Div. 2007), and Schuler v. Borough of Bloomsbury, GRC Complaint No. 2007-151 (February 2009). Additionally, pursuant to “OPRA,” a custodian is only obligated to search his/her files to find the identifiable government records listed in an OPRA request. A custodian is not required to research his/her files to figure out which records, if any, might be responsive to a broad and unclear OPRA request. See Donato v. Township of Union, GRC Complaint No. 2005-182. The Borough document system does not have the capability to search by product category, such as fire extinguishers or fire suppression systems, and would require an excessive number of hours to research all invoices during this time period (2020-2026) to determine if there are any responsive documents.

If you wish to clarify your request by providing the vendor names, please forward the information and we will gladly process your request. However, in the absence of any such clarification, please consider this request denied.

Should you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Margaret “Missy” Scanlon, RMC
Borough Clerk
BOROUGH OF RUTHERFORD
176 Park Avenue
Rutherford, NJ 07070
P: 201-460-3001

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Michael <[OPRA #89380 email]>
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2026 11:12 PM
To: Margaret M. Scanlon <[Rutherford Borough request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Spending

****CAUTION****
This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

Dear Rutherford Borough,

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:


Copies of ALL invoices for all fire extinguisher, kitchen fire suppression and fire alarm services from 2020 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

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Please deliver records electronically via email to the below UNIQUE address for all replies to this request:

[OPRA #89380 email]

Is [Rutherford Borough request email] the wrong address for OPRA requests to Rutherford Borough? If so, please contact us using this form:

https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=ht...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:

https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=ht...

View this OPRA request & responses online:

https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=ht...

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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