The Supreme Court of New Jersey has ruled that individual fields of data
from electronically stored public records are subject to disclosure under
the Open Public Records Act.

The justices ruled unanimously that the fields of sender, recipient,
subject and date from emails sent by the police chief and municipal clerk
in Galloway Township are themselves public records. They overturned an
Appellate Division ruling that said providing such data to a records
requester would constitute creation of a new document, which would exceed
the requirements of OPRA.

"A document is nothing more than a compilation of information—discrete
facts and data. By OPRA's language, information in electronic form, even if
part of larger document, is itself a government record. Thus,
electronically stored information extracted from an email is not the
creation of a new record or new information; it is a government record,"
Justice Barry Albin wrote for the court.


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