Legal Opinion
Patricia Gilleran v. Township of Bloomfield(076114)
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided November 22, 2016No. A-15-15PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice LaVECCHIA
This appeal arises from a citizen request, pursuant to the Open Public Records Act (OPRA or the Act), N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13, and the common law right of access, for essentially a day’s worth of video footage from a stationary security camera attached to the second-story rear area of Bloomfield Town Hall, adjacent to the police station.
The Township of Bloomfield (Township) declined to release the videotape footage. According to the Township, allowing unrestricted access to security camera videotape—which would reveal not only what is and is not captured by the security camera, but also when…
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