2 Lawmakers Want to Expand NJ’s Public Records Law

Two Republican lawmakers want to pull back the curtain on New Jersey's Open Public Records law and try to make legislators fully subject to it.

Assemblyman John Amodeo and Assemblyman-elect Chris Brown say they will introduce a bill in January to allow the decade-old law, known as OPRA, to apply to communications between legislators and other governmental agencies.

Under New Jersey's law, any memos, notes or other documents created upon the request of a lawmaker are exempt. Anything lawmakers ask the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services is considered privileged. Lawmakers can waive that privilege.

The law was passed in 2002.

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