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Dear Wallington 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
Dear Tony Michael,
This comes in response to your OPRA Request for:
“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.”
Thank you for your patience in awaiting this reply. We are requesting an
extension of 7 business day to Wednesday April 29^th to respond as the
Borough is still searching its files for any and all responsive documents.
If your request seeks information or asks questions and does not identify
specific government records, same is not a valid OPRA request. When a
request is “complex” because it fails to specifically identify the
documents sought, then that request is not “encompassed” by OPRA. See New
Jersey Builders Association v. New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing,
390 N.J.Super. 166, 180 (App. Div. 2007). A proper request under OPRA
must identify with reasonable clarity those documents that are desired,
and a party cannot satisfy this requirement by simply requesting all of an
agency's documents. See Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381
N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). Custodians are not required to
conduct research or create new records in response to an OPRA request.
Regards,
Casey Kimmel, RMC
Borough Clerk
Borough of Wallington
(973) 777-0318 ext. 201
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Dear Tony Michael,
Thank you for your patience in awaiting this reply. The following comes in
response to your OPRA Request for:
“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.”
Please find attached the responsive records uncovered by the Finance
Department in their search in response to your request.
If your request seeks information or asks questions and does not identify
specific government records, same is not a valid OPRA request. When a
request is “complex” because it fails to specifically identify the
documents sought, then that request is not “encompassed” by OPRA. See New
Jersey Builders Association v. New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing,
390 N.J.Super. 166, 180 (App. Div. 2007). A proper request under OPRA
must identify with reasonable clarity those documents that are desired,
and a party cannot satisfy this requirement by simply requesting all of an
agency's documents. See Bent v. Stafford Police Department, 381
N.J.Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). Custodians are not required to
conduct research or create new records in response to an OPRA request.
Regards,
Casey Kimmel, RMC
Borough Clerk
Borough of Wallington
(973) 777-0318 ext. 201
[1][email address]
The content of this email is confidential and is intended for the sole use
of the recipient specified in this message and may contain confidential
and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure
or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended
recipient, please contact the sender via email, phone or fax and destroy
all copies of the original message.
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