Israel/Palestine emails

Please be advised that we require an extension of time to fulfill this request until December 01, 2023 to respond to your OPRA request. Please respond back by email stating whether or not you agree to this extension.

Sincerely,

Heeral Patel
City Clerk Department
Clifton City Hall
900 Clifton Ave
Clifton,NJ 07013
973-470-5825

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Good afternoon,
Please be advised that the records custodian for the Police Department was out sick this week and just produced a voluminous amount of documents that are potentially responsive to your OPRA request, which is due today. However, given the sensitive nature of the material contained in the records, they need to be reviewed by the legal department. As such, we respectfully request a one week extension to 12/8/23 to complete your OPRA request. Please confirm that we have your consent for an extension. If we do not receive a response, we will assume that we have obtained your consent. Thank you and feel free to call me with any questions.

Sincerely,

Heeral Patel
City Clerk Department
Clifton City Hall
900 Clifton Ave
Clifton,NJ 07013
973-470-5825

[Clifton Seal]

This e-mail (including all attachments) is intended for the exclusive use of the individual to whom it is addressed. This e-mail may be proprietary,confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, the reader is hereby put on notice that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any of its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail and delete the original e-mail and all copies of it from your computer system.

This e-mail (including all attachments) is intended for the exclusive use of the individual to whom it is addressed. This e-mail may be proprietary,confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, the reader is hereby put on notice that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any of its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail and delete the original e-mail and all copies of it from your computer system.

Please be advised that in view of the large volume of potentially responsive records to your OPRA request, and sensitive nature of the content in those records, we need an additional extension to 12/15/2023 for the legal department to complete its review and for us to respond to your request.

Please confirm that we have your consent for an extension. If we do not receive a response, we will assume that we have obtained your consent. Thank you and feel free to call me with any questions.

Sincerely,

Heeral Patel
City Clerk Department
Clifton City Hall
900 Clifton Ave
Clifton,NJ 07013
973-470-5825

[Clifton Seal]

This e-mail (including all attachments) is intended for the exclusive use of the individual to whom it is addressed. This e-mail may be proprietary,confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, the reader is hereby put on notice that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any of its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail and delete the original e-mail and all copies of it from your computer system.

This e-mail (including all attachments) is intended for the exclusive use of the individual to whom it is addressed. This e-mail may be proprietary,confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, the reader is hereby put on notice that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any of its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail and delete the original e-mail and all copies of it from your computer system.

We are in receipt of your OPRA request for email exchanges between various members of the police department that reference the words "Israel", "Palestine", "Hamas" and/or "Jerusalem". The City conduced a search of its records and is producing all of the emails to you. However, please note that some of the emails are redacted due to the sensitive nature of the emails which relate to various intelligence received from State agencies such as the New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center and the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security. The redactions in emails received from those agencies were made under the emergency and/or security measures/surveillance techniques exemptions contained in N.J.S.A. 47:1A:1.1, N.J.A.C. 13:1E-3.2(a)(2), N.J.A.C. 13:1E-3.2(a)(5), and/or Executive Orders #5 (Governor Corzine, paragraph 28) , #21 (Governor McGreevey, paragraph 1), and #69 (Governor Whitman, paragraph 4).

In addition, redactions were made to emails that originated from Clifton Police Officers, including but not limited to Officer Gary Giardina, as the messages relate to various ongoing investigations regarding bias crimes and other criminal acts. Those redactions were made in accordance with the ongoing investigation and criminal investigatory records exemption set forth in N.J.S.A. 47: 1A-1.1 and N.J.S.A. 47: 1A- 3 as well as the security exemption in accordance with N.J.S.A. 47: 1A-1.1. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Law Department.

Ronald H. Liss
Records Analyst
City of Clifton

This e-mail (including all attachments) is intended for the exclusive use of the individual to whom it is addressed. This e-mail may be proprietary,confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, the reader is hereby put on notice that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any of its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail and delete the original e-mail and all copies of it from your computer system.