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Master clerk explains intricacies of recent OPRA requests

By Chris Sykes on July 31, 2017 HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON

IRVINGTON, NJ — 2017 has been a busy year for Irvington municipal clerk Harold Wiener, when it comes to answering the flood of Open Public Records Act requests that have inundated his office. “We had 856 OPRA requests last year and are on a pace to increase that amount by a large amount this year,” […]

Old OPRA request denied by GRC is granted

By Chris Sykes on July 30, 2017 HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE

ORANGE, NJ — Katalin Gordon is an Orange resident and taxpayer who uncovered the fact that former Chief Financial Officer Jack Kelly overbilled taxpayers by $2 million during former Mayor Eldridge Hawkins Jr.’s administration. Gordon filed an Open Public Records Act request in 2013, when former city clerk Dwight Mitchell was out for an extended […]