The long-planned, slow death of open government in New Jersey
A decade of shrinking access, weakened oversight and rising secrecy has left the public shut out of its own government.
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State ethics board fined Trenton parking officials over insider contract deal
The ethics case stems from a 2020 contract.
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New Jersey Supreme Court to decide if public can see cop’s internal affairs file after criminal case expunged
A Jersey City police officer fired a shotgun at a party. The refusal to release his internal affairs file has prompted a legal battle over transparency.
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Researchers sue New Jersey over access to Lindbergh kidnapping records
For the past 13 months, streams of researchers from around the country have been locked out of the archive.
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Meet CJ Griffin, one of New Jersey’s fiercest advocates for government transparency
As a partner at Pashman Stein, CJ Griffin is director of the law firm’s Public Interest Center.
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Murphy not on publicized shortlists for potential Democratic vice presidential candidates
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s closest allies are trying to…
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‘We’re in a lot of trouble’: Former Gov. Tom Kean weighs in on the health of democracy in N.J. and the nation
Former Governor Tom Kean sits down with Ian Shearn via Zoom to discuss government transparency and threats to democracy.
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We filed a public records request for the OPRA log from Eilzabeth, N.J., and this is what we got back
Back in November, Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage complained on X…
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On Fixing the Open Public Records Act
The following post by Marc Pfeiffer is being republished courtesy…
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We need to fix OPRA – Let’s start here
New Jersey’s 22-year-old Open Public Records Act, OPRA, is an…
