• NJASA Legal Department Research Services - January 2025

    The Open Public Records Act (OPRA) governs and regulates access to government records.  Part One of this Administrative Guide provided a brief overview of changes to the law that became effective in September 2024. Part Two provided an analysis of the exemption from disclosure for advisory, consultative, and deliberative material and discussed the changes for requests for email and text messages. Part Three discussed exemptions for security-related information and for the attorney-client privilege. Part Four discussed exemptions for personnel records and records related to investigations. This final Part Five discusses the rules governing requests for government records, compliance with those requests, and the rules for accessing education records.

     

    The January School News Briefs reviews three new cases, including one case decided by the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, in which the Court held that boards of education, school administrators, and teachers do not owe a fiduciary duty to students, and a board is not vicariously liable under the New Jersey Tort Claims Act for a sexual assault committed by a former teacher.

     

    The Special Education Bulletin also discusses three new cases, including one in which the Appellate Division held that a board is not liable to pay parents under a settlement agreement for the father’s tutoring of his special needs child at home.

     

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