State Pays $40,000 to Newspaper For Withholding Public Information

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By: Todd B. Bates | Asbury Park Press

For the state Department of Education, the cost of withholding public information from the public has a steep price tag: $40,290.80.

That’s the total the state paid the Asbury Park Press for its legal fees after a Superior Court judge ruled in July the department violated the state’s Open Public Records Act. The Press sued this year when it was denied full access to a list of schools the department planned to investigate for possibly tampering with state-mandated tests.































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