Legal Opinion
Loigman v. Kimmelman
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided February 25, 1986PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
O’HERN, J.
In this case we are called upon to balance the citizen’s right of access to official information with the government’s need for confidentiality in the conduct of law-enforcement investigations. Here, the citizen seeks access to what is described as an Attorney General’s audit of the confidential account of the Monmouth County Prosecutor. Such accounts are designed to enable a prosecutor to conduct undercover operations, reward informers, and perform other sensitive law-enforcement functions.
The plaintiff is a practicing attorney of Monmouth…
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