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Records we’ve requested

Public-records requests Jersey Intel has filed under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act. Subjects stay private until the story runs. When agencies stall, we report it.

  • NJ Schools Development Authority Filed Oct. 8 Response due ~Oct. 20 Pending
  • Essex County Filed Oct. 8 Response due Oct. 21 Pending
  • City of Newark (3 requests) Filed Oct. 8 Response due ~Oct. 19–20 Pending
  • Bergen County Filed Oct. 8 Response due ~Oct. 19–20 Partial
  • City of Hackensack Filed Oct. 9 Response due ~Oct. 20 Pending
  • City of Plainfield Filed Oct. 9 Response due ~Oct. 21–22 Pending
  • Bergen County Sheriff's Office Filed Oct. 9 Response due ~Oct. 21–22 Pending
  • Passaic County Filed Oct. 12 Response due ~Oct. 22 Pending

Updated Oct. 12, 2026

Elections

Accountability

Stack early-voting bill’s density cutoff fits only Hudson County — and expands state-paid early voting to school and fire races

October 12, 2026 · Jersey Intel Staff

S4796, introduced Oct. 8 by Sen. Brian Stack (D-33), would require early voting for every election — including municipal, school-board and fire-district contests — only in counties with at least 15,000 people per square mile. 2020 Census figures put Hudson alone above that line; Essex, the next densest, is under 7,000. The Legislature’s bill page says OLS certified the measure for a fiscal note; no estimate is posted.

Accountability

Sacco’s Oct. 28 exit date means North Bergen voters won’t get a say on his seat until May 2027

October 9, 2026 · Jersey Intel Staff

North Bergen Mayor Nick Sacco says he’ll resign effective Oct. 28 and is backing Commissioner Hugo Cabrera for mayor and his son, Lincoln School Principal Nick Sacco Jr., for his commission seat. Under New Jersey’s Municipal Vacancy Law, that date lands 6 days before the Nov. 3 general election, too late for the ballot, so the four remaining commissioners pick the replacement and voters next weigh in on May 11, 2027.

Accountability

State picked Thales to replace MVC’s license-system vendor on lowest price in May. The governor’s voter-roll statements still don’t name it.

October 8, 2026 · Jersey Intel Staff

A June 11, 2026 Treasury decision names Thales DIS USA as the State’s pick to replace IDEMIA’s MVC driver-license system, chosen on “the lowest overall pricing.” The bid was issued in January 2025, before Gov. Sherrill took office. Her July 21, July 28 and Oct. 7 statements on the voter-registration errors don’t name Thales. The new bid says MVC and the Division of Elections “will provide all verbiage and workflows for the signature pad logic.”