NJFOG Examine Finds Systemic Lack of Compliance with the Open Public Conferences Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Jersey Basis for Open Authorities, March 2021
New Jersey’s native governments, on common, are solely 60 p.c in compliance with the New Jersey Open Public Conferences Act (OPMA), in keeping with a examine launched by the New Jersey Basis for Open Authorities (NJFOG).
The OPMA, handed into regulation in 1975, has remained comparatively unchanged over 45 years. The first function of the OPMA is to conduct authorities conferences in public, maintain a document of public conferences, and to present the general public satisfactory discover.
In what’s the first statewide examine of municipalities, native authorities and boards