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Board questions legal bills tied to OPRA requests and schedules executive-session follow-up
Summary
Board members pressed for answers about attorney invoices tied to re-review of Open Public Records Act (OPRA) responses, withholding approval of several checks; members voted to add an executive session to the end of the meeting to discuss legal strategy and billing.
The Berkeley Heights Board of Education spent more than an hour Wednesday night debating attorney bills tied to public-records work and approved a plan to take privileged legal matters back into executive session.
Several board members raised detailed concerns about invoices they said were for re-review of documents that had already been released under the Open Public Records Act. “There was an OPRA request April 2nd for requests from January through March that cost $1,480,” one member said while listing…
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