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The New Jersey Legislature gutted the Open Public Records Act on Monday, rolling back decades of progress in providing access to records on the local, county and state levels, even as members of ...
The legislation was first enacted in 2002 and requires local, county and state government entities to provide the public with access to government records in New Jersey.
Advocates have said that Murphy's signature erases decades of progress in gaining access to documents and information paid for by New Jersey taxpayers. “The public opposition to S2930/A4045 was ...
The New Jersey Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq. (P.L. 2001, c. 404), commonly abbreviated OPRA, is a statute that provides a right to the public to access certain public records in the State of New Jersey, as well as the process by which that right may be exercised. In general, OPRA provides that "government records shall be ...
In this case, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled in 2005 that Lafayette Yard CDC, a private non-profit, was subject to the provisions of New Jersey's open records (OPRA) legislation [1] because it issued city-backed bonds and the majority of its board was appointed by the city council of Trenton.
The Judiciary of New Jersey comprises the New Jersey Supreme Court as the state supreme court and many lower courts.. New Jersey's judiciary is unusual in that it still separates cases at law from those in equity, like its neighbor Delaware but unlike most other U.S. states; however, unlike Delaware, the courts of law and equity are formally "divisions" of a single unified lower court of ...