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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

NJ Legislature

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

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.