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TexasTowelie

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Sun Mar 5, 2017, 11:59 PM Mar 2017

N.J. Supreme Court case could reshape what government information you get to see

TRENTON -- By all accounts, it would have taken a couple keystrokes for a local government to give John Paff the information he was after.

Instead, New Jersey's Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a years-long fight as it weighs a decision that could reshape what government information the public is entitled to in the digital age.

Paff, an open records advocate, is challenging an appeals court ruling that found his request for logs of e-mails between the Galloway Township clerk and its chief of police was invalid under the state's records laws.

Paff had requested information including the sender, recipient, date, and subject of the emails between the two parties over a two-week period in 2013.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/nj_supreme_court_ruling_could_reshape_what_governm.html

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