New Jersey
Open Public Records Act
N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq. (OPRA)
Public records law for New Jersey. Covers state agencies, counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts.
The clock
7 business days
7 business days; failure to respond = deemed denial.
Statutory: 7 business days; failure to respond = deemed denial.. Actual medians vary widely by agency and request complexity; simple requests often 7-30 days, complex 60-300+.
Reading the statute itself
The text of this one is not reproduced here. The United States Code carries no copyright, so federal FOIA is printed on this site in full; the fifty state codes are published by fifty legislatures under their own claims of compilation copyright, so they are linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee-waiver standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.
If they refuse
- Appeal deadline
- Not specified
- Appeal route
- Appeal to Government Records Council (GRC) within 45 days or superior court; GRC mediation.
- Litigation
- Not specified
Fees and expedition
Quirks worth knowing
GRC effective; request must be for identifiable records (no research).