Democracy in peril: Why you should care about the N.J. Open Public Records Act bill
The N.J. Legislature could vote as early as Monday on a bill that would gut the state’s Open Public Records Act.
We need to fix OPRA – Let’s start here
New Jersey’s 22-year-old Open Public Records Act, OPRA, is an important public policy that has problems. Many of them are related to age, which has exposed difficulties in dealing with new technologies, the commercial demand for data, administrative complexity, costs, privacy concerns, and loopholes. It is widely acknowledged that OPRA needs fixing. Recent legislative hearings…
They’re doing it because they can: Democratic leadership in N.J. Legislature seems determined to curtail the public’s rights to know
What’s the rush to gut government transparency in New Jersey?
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