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Towns push back against open-government bills

Jeff Voigt Ridgewood Council

file photo by Boyd Loving

Nicholas Katzban, Staff Writer, @NicholasKatzban

In the mid-1970s, the Open Public Meetings Act created the basis for government transparency in the state of New Jersey. A little more than 15 years later, the Open Public Records Act followed, replacing the nascent “Right-to-Know Law.”

Since then, the laws have seen few face-lifts, and the wrinkles are beginning to show.

“We want to bring the bills into the 21st century,” said state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck, “some parts of which were written before there was such a thing as an Internet.”

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/ridgewood/2017/10/15/towns-push-back-against-open-government-bills/756622001/

6 thoughts on “Towns push back against open-government bills

  1. So let me get this straight, Councilman Voigt voted despite the fact that he’d not read the amendments to which the Council resolution applied? WTF?

  2. How quickly they seem to forget that they work for us and that we pay all of the bills. Taxpayers own the information and are entitled to see it all. Vote the bums out.

  3. Hahaha. Jeff Voigt submits tons of OPRAs and he has Rurik submit them, too according to his instructions

  4. Why would they vote to block the flow of information? I am disgusted with all of them

  5. WHAT? Jeff Voigt votes no, and then admits he did not read it. What a complete and total buffoon.

  6. Once again Voigt and his bromance with The Record reporter turns out to be a major fail for Jeff. His quote makes him look like the totally incompetent fool that he is. Nothing new there.

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