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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

Legislature

Accountability

Senate President’s new solar bill would let landfill and mine projects add ‘non-contiguous’ land, with no cap

October 9, 2026 · Jersey Intel Staff

S4729, introduced by Senate President Nicholas Scutari on Oct. 5 and approved by a Senate committee Oct. 8, would let community solar projects on landfills, brownfields, contaminated sites and mines include ‘related, non-contiguous tracts of land’ and bar the BPU from limiting how much. The September solar law allowed only ‘associated or contiguous’ land, and only for public remote net metering.

Legislature

Ballot question for a $2,500 veterans’ tax break leaves out its $181.8 million-a-year cost to the State

October 8, 2026 · Jersey Intel Staff

Jersey Intel read SCR96 and its fiscal estimate. The ballot question would ask voters to raise the veterans’ property tax deduction from $250 to $2,500, but it doesn’t mention that the State reimburses towns for it. OLS puts that cost at $72.8 million in FY 2029, rising to $181.8 million in FY 2032. The Executive Branch never answered OLS’s fiscal-note request.