A town sues one of its own.
Stafford Township
it was a former teacher from New York City who spent her retirement attending meetings, asking questions and being generally suspicious of anything the township committee did. Once upon a time, when every town had a local reporter to go to all those meetings, it seemed every town also hadperson, the one called either a very engaged citizen or a gadfly, depending on who you’re asking. In Irvington,has filed more than 75 OPRA requests over the course of three years to the town looking for records, and once ran for mayor. She was a pretty engaged citizen until the pandemic put her attentions elsewhere.
When does the public’s right to know and to keep elected officials accountable cross the line from hyper-civic engagement to a nuisance? And isn’t it public officials jobs to deal with constituents seeking public information from their own town, even if it’s bothersome? , saying her many requests have been “unduly burdensome, time consuming and expensive,” calling her filings “frivolous” and claiming they’re only done to harass and embarrass the town’s mayor. OK, snowflakes.’ front-page story on the situation, she got the help she needed. Attorney
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