🚨LEGISLATION ALERT: NEW JERSEY ABOUT TO GUT RECORDS ACCESS FOR GENEALOGISTS?🚨
The statutory price for GRO Certificates/PDF/Digital Images has been raised. This applies to certificates from local councils as well. £12.50 = Certificate, £8 = PDF, £3 = Digital Image. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #LocalHistory @AGRAGenealogy
Lyla Poos Strong
United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007
"Over the last several months, the Newsday editorial board has filed nearly a dozen FOIL requests with eight state or local government entities. None of the public information requested has been produced."
We need the NYS Legislature to act on FOIL reform.
Nassau County and its police department were held in contempt of court this month for ignoring an order to hand over a document it has spent four years fighting to keep secret.
The closely guarded document? The police department phone directory.
@CJGriffinEsq And don't forget the times that just seeing your name on a formal letterhead was enough to strike fear into them, even without needing a lawsuit! You were the one who helped bring the New Jersey state death *and* marriage index data to the world, via OPRA!
They don't like my cases - you know, the ones that gave us all access to:
- use of force reports
- dash & body cams
-names of cops who kill people
-police disciplinary agreements
-police IA files
-subpoenas for newborn baby blood
-video of cops bragging about brutality
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Unfortunately, New Jersey's legislature is still on the verge of totally gutting their awesome state Freedom of Information law, OPRA. It may soon become a lot harder to get records out of the state, including genealogical ones. 😠
We sent them our thoughts about the situation.
Happy belated Mother's Day, to everyone researching. We love reading these kinds of stories where our work for free records access has made a difference. 🥰
(Also, we are going to have some updates for NYC marriage license data soon...! 😁)
https://twitter.com/jjainschigg/status/1789717653872931167
But it wasn't internal archives staff doing most of the original scanning, it was a separate group under a publicly-available contract with the city.
Did the Archives allow the contractors to just...not scan millions of records? Without a plan or penalty?
https://twitter.com/JimBooth975/status/1787941848247382059
Good grief you guys. In Michigan, a bipartisan bill is moving to make the legislature subject to the public records law. Here in NJ, our Legislature -- which is exempt from OPRA--is moving to gut OPRA, with bipartisan support.
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