Bill > A5615

Introduced Session

This bill allows a court to issue a protective order limiting the number and scope of requests for access to a government record a requestor may make. The court may issue the protective order if it determines that the requests for access to a government record over a period of time have substantially disrupted the operations of the public agency, or the custodian, or both. The petition to the court for the order will be accompanied by a declaration of facts by the public agency withholding the records demonstrating that it has complied with the law and has made a good faith effort to reach an informal resolution of the issues relating to the records requests. The order may limit, or in appropriate circumstances eliminate, the public agency's duty to respond to government records requests from the requestor in the future. The order may set timeframes for responding to future requests by the requestor. An order to limit the public agency's duty to respond will not exceed one year from the date of the court order. The order may be appealed to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court.

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Joe Danielsen (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee (on 06/15/2023)

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