Traffic light on 1690 South Washington Avenue
Dear Middlesex County,
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:
* Communication (emails/letters) between the county and Piscataway about the proposed traffic light being erected at 1690 South Washington Avenue between 2024 and now
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,
B Rak
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Dear B:
Thank you for your interest in public records of Middlesex County. Your
request has been received and is being processed. Your request was
received in this office on July 02, 2025 and given the reference number
W022603-070225 for tracking purposes.
Record Requested: Communication (emails/letters) between the county and
Piscataway about the proposed traffic light being erected at 1690 South
Washington Avenue between 2024 and now
You will receive an email when your request has been completed. Again,
thank you for contacting Middlesex County.
Middlesex County
Dear Middlesex County OPRA Center,
Did you have an update on this request?
Yours sincerely,
B Rak
Attachments:
[1]emails_PI-SP-1375.pdf
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Dear B.Rak
The Office of Planning writes
to clarify a few matters with regard to your public records request.
First, does this request pertain to an ongoing litigation dispute? Please
confirm whether or not it does as required pursuant to OPRA. Next, your
public records request is deficient insofar as it fails to identify the
specific job title or accounts to be searched, or subject matter for the
search as required pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5. Notwithstanding these
objections, attached please find the correspondence file maintained by the
office of planning.
Thank you,
Annette Cacace
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Dear Middlesex County OPRA Center,
Hi, thanks for the reply. I think part of my initial message got lost, so I'll restate it here:
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.
Piscataway is telling us the county is "requiring" a traffic signal at this location. I'm trying to determine why that requirement exists, as the initial application to Piscataway's planning/zoning board had an explicit mention that no such signal was going to be required. I'm afraid I can't really pin down an exact person/communication to reference, the only information I have is the mayor saying the county is requiring the light to be there.
Yours sincerely,
B Rak