Englewood Police Records for Ability School (Scientology School)

R. M. Seibert filed this request with the City of Englewood, NJ - City Clerk of Englewood, NJ.
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From: R. M. Seibert

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to Open Public Records Act ("OPRA"), I hereby request the following records:

All police records, call logs and/or incident reports generated since January 1, 2000 pertaining to the private school located at 75 Knickerbocker Rd, Englewood, NJ 07631 and the adjacent address for the same property at 192 W Demarest Ave, Englewood, NJ 07631. This school is currently registered with the state as "Ability School, Inc." but has also operated under the business name "Apple Ability School" for the given addresses.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as we believe this request is in the public interest due to the the numerous controversies related to the controversial "Applied Scholastics" curriculum based on Scientology education principles being taught that has been reported in the press. For more information, please see:

http://bit.ly/1d7O0rs
http://bit.ly/1GT8EIf
http://bit.ly/1EUUhRl

Additionally, the requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Ms. R. M. Seibert

From: Lawrence Suffern

Good Day,
Please address your request to the City of Englewood's Clerk who will process your Open Public Records Act request. All OPRA request are made through the City Clerk.

Sincerely,

Lawrence D. Suffern
Chief of Police

201-871-6400

From: MuckRock

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to Open Public Records Act ("OPRA"), I hereby request the following records:

All police records, call logs and/or incident reports generated since January 1, 2000 pertaining to the private school located at 75 Knickerbocker Rd, Englewood, NJ 07631 and the adjacent address for the same property at 192 W Demarest Ave, Englewood, NJ 07631. This school is currently registered with the state as "Ability School, Inc." but has also operated under the business name "Apple Ability School" for the given addresses.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as we believe this request is in the public interest due to the the numerous controversies related to the controversial "Applied Scholastics" curriculum based on Scientology education principles being taught that has been reported in the press. For more information, please see:

http://bit.ly/1d7O0rs
http://bit.ly/1GT8EIf
http://bit.ly/1EUUhRl

Additionally, the requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Ms. R. M. Seibert

From: Lauren Vande Vaarst

Ms Seibert

I am in receipt of your OPRA request and by law I have until July 14, 2015 to respond to your request.

If the Englewood Police Department requests additional time to gather the requested information I will advise you of that and extend the OPRA deadline accordingly .

Lauren Vande Vaarst
City Clerk
City of Englewood
Sent from my iPhone

From: Lauren Vande Vaarst

Ms. Seibert:

The records that you requested in the above referenced OPRA request are attached.

Please note that personal identifying information has been redacted as per the NJ OPRA law N.J.S.A 47:1A-1et seq.
Best regards,
Lauren

Lauren Vande Vaarst, RMC
City Clerk
City of Englewood
2-10 N. Van Brunt Street
Englewood, NJ 07631

Direct Line: 201-510-8212
Fax: 201-567-4395
Email: clerk@cityofenglewood.org
www.cityofenglewood.org

From: R. M. Seibert

Dear Ms. Vaarst:

Thank you for the prompt response to my OPRA request. Unfortunately, the later half of the file attached to your response on July 9th appears to be corrupt and I'm unable to view multiple pages. Would it possible for you to resend a partial file starting with page 47 in the original file?

With gratitude,

Ms. R. M. Seibert

From: Lauren Vande Vaarst

Ms. Siebert:

Please see if this file works.

I am still on vacation and will not be responding to emails tomorrow.

I will be back in the office next Thursday, July 16th as I will be out of the office in the beginning of the week for medical treatments.

Lauren

Lauren Vande Vaarst, RMC
City Clerk
City of Englewood
2-10 N. Van Brunt Street
Englewood, NJ 07631

Direct Line: 201-510-8212
Fax: 201-567-4395
Email: clerk@cityofenglewood.org
www.cityofenglewood.org

From: R. M. Seibert

Dear Ms. Vaarst:

Thank you for the addition file in response to my OPRA request. I was able to read this additional response just fine. However, I still appear to be missing one page from where the original file you sent me cut off.

There is 2 page report for Incident # 1-2015-022732 dated 07/05/2015 that began with page 1 of 2 on page 46 of the original file. And page 2 of 2 wasn't included in the second file you sent me.

Would it be be possible to bother you one last time to check and see if the second page of this incident report was included in the records released for my request, and if so could you please forward it your convenience?

With gratitude,

Ms. R. M. Seibert

From: Ana Paton

Good morning Ms. Seibert;

The second page of the report #1-2015-022732, dated 07/06/2015 is on page 23 of the second e-mail the City Clerk send you.
Best regards,
Ana

Ana Paton
Licensing Clerk
201-510-8213
apaton@cityofenglewood.org

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