Irvington Township has dropped its lawsuit against a senior citizen who had been accused of harassing town employees by filing too many requests under the state’s Open Public Records Act.
Irvington Township has dropped its lawsuit against a senior citizen who had been accused of harassing town employees by filing too many requests under the state’s Open Public Records Act .
The I-Team was first to report on the unusual legal complaint, in which Irvington’s municipal government accused Elouise McDaniel, 82, of seeking a “burdensome” number of records and writing “frivolous letters and complaints” to state and federal agencies.
Though the complaint lists Irvington Mayor Tony Vauss as a victim of the alleged “harassment,” last month Vauss said he did not order the lawsuit and wasn’t sure who in his administration was behind it. Neither Vauss nor Township Attorney Ramon Rivera responded to the I-Team’s inquires about why the lawsuit was dropped.
McDaniel, a longtime critic of Vauss, believes the lawsuit was an attempt to silence her and to thwart her attempts to hold public officials accountable by seeking documentation of and investigations into their use of public funds.
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