TIPS AND SNIPPETS FOR FRIDAY August 29
Friday, August 29, 2008
BROOKLAWN BANK ROBBED
The Brooklawn Wachovia Bank, Route 130 and Browning Road, was robbed approximately 10:15 AM today Friday, by a black male. The suspect gave the teller a note; did not show a weapon, then fled on foot.
Bridget Hagan, of Gloucester City,
arrested for 2nd-degree conspiracy
The
Courier Post is reporting that Bridgett
Hagan, 20, of Gloucester City; 
Amanda Green, 26, of Woodbury; and Desirae
Dietrich, 22, of Laurel Springs, were arrested yesterday for second-degree
conspiracy, second-degree computer criminal activity and fourth-degree
falsifying or tampering with records, according to the office of Attorney
General Anne Milgram. They were released without bail.
All
three were working at the Cherry Hill Motor Vehicle Agency when the following
alleged actions took place:
Link: Courier-Post.
Gloucester City PD
and Brooklawn PD Plan Roadside Sobriety Checkpoint
Media Release-
The
Gloucester City Police Department in conjunction with the Brooklawn
Police Department will be conducting a roadside sobriety checkpoint on
Friday night September 5th.
The E-Mail They Didn’t
Want You to See
On
Thursday, August 28, a mediation session between City News Publisher Albert
Countryman, City News Publisher Emeritus Bill Cleary, City Solicitor John
Kearney and a representative of the state’s Government Records Council was held
to discuss the controversial E-mail that was sent in June by City Administrator
Paul Kain to Councilman Nick Marchese, Finance Chairman.
The City
News had filed an OPRA request in June for a copy of the Email so it could be
made public. OPRA provides that "... government
records shall be readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination
.... With certain exceptions ..." N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.
However, Pau
Kain, the City’s custodian of records refused to release the E-mail. “The information requested in your OPRA dated June 27, 2008, refers
to confidential, inter-agency, intra-agency advisory, consultative, and or
deliberative material and is therefore exempted from the Open Public Records
Act.”
Countryman
and Cleary had received a copy of the correspondence in question via snail mail
in June from an anonymous source.
Mr.
Countryman and I decided to file an OPRA request to see whether or not Mr. Kain
would release the information willingly. When he denied the request we decided
to take the next step and ask for mediation.
After our
meeting yesterday we have decided that it does not meet the criteria to be
excluded from public view. It will be released in its entirety next week.
Related: OPRA articles from CNB
HEARD ON THE STREET
A community in the immediate area is looking to replace a high ranking employee. A notice will be posted in October advertising the position.
~author Bill Cleary
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