There is an on-going battle being waged between record keepers and record seekers. The Star-Ledger and citizens often go to court to force reluctant agencies to turn over records they are required to release under the Open Public Records Act [OPRA].
Meanwhile, OPRA constantly is under attack by legislators who apparently don’t want the public to see what government is doing.
Two Assembly bills are the latest attempts to weaken OPRA. One would set per-page copying costs for OPRA records at 10 cents per letter-size page and 15 cents per legal-size page...
But here’s the kicker: An agency could charge those fees for documents delivered electronically.
Read more here.
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