OPRA 2.0: How to Navigate the Recent Amendments
Category: On Demand
Member Price: $120
Non-Member Price: $150
Product Code: ON152924
Areas of Law: Local Government
CLE Credits
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 2.0). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Professional Practice Transitional: 2.0 |
| PA CLE: | PA Substantive Credit: 1.5
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program. |
Faculty
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- F. Clifford Gibbons, Esq.
- F.Clifford Gibbons, Attorney At Law, LLC, Princetonis the owner and Managing Member of F. Clifford Gibbons, Attorney at Law, LLC in Princeton, New Jersey, and is Of Counsel to Dolan and Dolan, P.A. in Newton and Blairstown, New Jersey. He concentrates his practice in land use matters on behalf of municipal planning/zoning boards, developers, property owners and citizen organizations throughout New Jersey, and has been involved in several reported cases. He has been appointed by the New Jersey Superior Court as a Hearing Officer in affordable housing litigation.
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nAdmitted to practice in New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Gibbons is Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Local Government Law Section, a Trustee of the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys and a member of the Mercer County, Sussex County and Princeton Bar Associations (and an Trustee emeritus of the latter) and the New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys. He is Assistant Counsel to the New Jersey Planning Officials and Associate Counsel to the New Jersey League of Municipalities, for which he chairs the League’s Municipal Land Use Law Technical Review Committee. He is also General Counsel to the New Jersey Association of Planning and Zoning Administrators.
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nAn adjunct instructor for Rutgers University, Mr. Gibbons is co-author of the New Jersey Casebook on Zoning, Planning and Land Use Law and was for many years co-author, with William M. Cox, of New Jersey Zoning and Land Use Administration (Gann Law Books). He has authored numerous articles on zoning, planning, legal ethics and other topics which have appeared in the New Jersey Lawyer, New Jersey Planner and the Municipal Law Review. Mr. Gibbons is the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Banking Law and Regulation and a two-time recipient of the New Jersey Planning Officials’ Achievement in Planning Award. In 2018 he was the recipient of the William M. Cox Award bestowed by the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys, which recognizes an attorney or judge distinguished in land use law.
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nMr. Gibbons received his A.B. from Colgate University and J.D. from Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law.
n(8/23) - Walter M. Luers, Esq.
- Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP, Saddle Brook
- Samora F. Noguera
- Counsel, Office of the City Clerk, Newark
- Michael D. Witt, Esq.
- General Counsel, Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, Newark
On June 5, Gov. Phil Murphy signed S2930/A4045, a law that will drastically change New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA).
The law’s sponsors tout it as a cost-saving measure that unburdens municipal clerks and others tasked with providing records under the act. Opponents, however, argue that the reforms weaken OPRA and limit the public’s ability to obtain accessible records.
Join attorneys with experience in OPRA proceedings and in representing municipal, county and state governments as they help you navigate the proposed new law.
Topics include:
- The New and Broader Exceptions to the Definitions of Public Records
- Expanded Privacy Protections
- New Requirement for the Use of Forms
- New Cause of Action for Public Agencies Against Requestors
- Limits on the Right to Proceed Anonymously in Superior
- Limits on the Use of OPRA when related to a pending legal proceeding
- Published Cases Reversed by the Amendments
- New Burden of Proof in Special Service Charge Cases
- New Rules for Commercial Requestors
- Effective Dates and Pipeline Retroactivity
Don’t miss this important, timely seminar!