The New Jersey Foundation for Open Government will be holding a free open government presentation on Wednesday, November 10 at 7 p.m. Bradley Beach Mayor Julie Schreck and Robert Napoli are sponsoring the event. The presentation will take place at the Bradley Beach Firehouse Banquet Hall, located at the rear of 725 Main Street, Bradley Beach, New Jersey. NJFOG is New Jersey’s only nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about OPRA and OPMA. NJFOG also seeks to improve and enforce these laws.
Speakers will discuss the Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) and the Open Public Meetings Act (“OPMA”). Three NJFOG representatives will discuss the requirements of these laws, how they can be enforced, recent changes in the law, and common mistakes made by both members of the public and public agencies when working with these laws. They will also answer questions. The three speakers will be:
John Paff, who is an NJFOG director, is chairman of the Open Government Task Force of the Libertarian Party of Middlesex County and is a state-wide advocate of open government.
Attorney Walter Luers is also a NJFOG director who specializes in open government law.
Michael Pierone is also an advocate for open government who specializes in collecting spending information from public agencies and placing that information in online databases that can be searched by the public.
The public is invited and encouraged to attend. There is no charge for this event.
For further information, please contact NJFOG Administrator Jane Primerano, 908-459-5082.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, July 10, 2009
Asbury Park Promises Better Compliance with Sunshine Law
In a July 10, 2009 letter, Asbury Park City Attorney Frederick C. Raffetto, writing on behalf of the Mayor and City Council, agreed to modify the Council's executive session procedure to better comply with the Sen. Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act.
Raffetto's letter was in response to a July 3, 2009 letter from the New Jersey Libertarian Party's Open Government Advocacy Project (NJLP) that expressed three concerns regarding the City's closed meeting procedure. Specifically, the NJLP expressed concern that a) minutes of executive sessions were not being promptly disclosed to the the public, b) the Council discussed an issue in executive session that ought to have been discussed in public, and c) the Council would privately discuss issues other than those listed on the executive session's agenda.
The referred to above are on-line at http://ogtf.lpcnj.org/2009190oH//APOPMA.pdf
John Paff, Somerset, New Jersey
Raffetto's letter was in response to a July 3, 2009 letter from the New Jersey Libertarian Party's Open Government Advocacy Project (NJLP) that expressed three concerns regarding the City's closed meeting procedure. Specifically, the NJLP expressed concern that a) minutes of executive sessions were not being promptly disclosed to the the public, b) the Council discussed an issue in executive session that ought to have been discussed in public, and c) the Council would privately discuss issues other than those listed on the executive session's agenda.
The referred to above are on-line at http://ogtf.lpcnj.org/2009190oH//APOPMA.pdf
John Paff, Somerset, New Jersey
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