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Article: OPENING PUBLIC RECORDS
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- March 3, 2000
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
03-03-2000
OPENING PUBLIC RECORDS -- PROTECT CITIZENS FROM GETTING THE RUNAROUND
Date: 03-03-2000, Friday
Section: OPINION
Edition: All Editions -- Four Star B, Three Star B, Two Star P, One Star B
AN EFFORT in the Legislature to expand the state's Open Public
Records Act is welcome and long overdue.
As anecdotes from citizens at an Assembly hearing this week make
clear, being entitled by state law to certain public documents is no
guarantee that you will get them. Or even that you will be treated
courteously.
A man from South Jersey told of asking a local tax assessor for
copies of a tax assessment map and a list of property owners. The mayor
had authorized ...
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