On March 24, 2007, the City of Englewood paid $4,750 to Brian Lynch who claimed to have been assaulted by Englewood Police officers S. Carnahan, M. DeLarosa, T. Greeley and J. Doyle on March 27, 2005, when Lynch was 15 years old. Lynch claims that the assault took place in a parking lot near Slocum […]
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Suggestions to the Government Records Council
I attended the February 25, 2009 meeting of the Government Records Council and offered some suggestions during the public portion of the meeting. Specifically: 1. That the Council make its public meeting minutes more promptly available.2. That the Council hold one or more of its public meetings someplace other than Trenton, so that the public […]
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Decision in Paff v. Penns Grove
On February 10, 2009, Assignment Judge Georgia M. Curio issued a written opinion in my OPRA and OPMA case against the Borough of Penns Grove in Salem County. I was represented by Walter M. Luers. The opinion and the closed session resolutions, revised closed session resolutions and redacted closed session meeting minutes are on-line here. […]
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LFB: Files lost and “administratively closed.”
I recently sent an OPRA request to the Local Finance Board (LFB) seeking information on Local Government Ethics Law violation cases from 1999 that were still marked “pending” in 2006. I was interested in these cases because I wanted to know what types of cases took seven years to investigate. At the time of my […]
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Local Finance Board Advisory Opinions now on-line
As a public service, the New Jersey Libertarian Party’s Open Government Advocacy Project has uploaded the New Jersey Local Finance Board’s “advisory opinions” to the Internet. Click here. These are the official opinions that the Board has issued whenever a mayor, council member or other official has inquired whether his or her conduct would violate […]