New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 3 - GOVERNMENT RECORDS › Subchapter 2 - CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDS › Section 5:3-2.2 - Records designated confidential

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) In addition to
				records designated as confidential pursuant to the provisions of
				47:1A-1 et seq., as amended and
				supplemented, any other law, regulation promulgated under the authority of any
				statute or Executive Order of the Governor, resolution of both houses of the
				Legislature, Executive Order of the Governor, Rules of Court, or any Federal law,
				Federal regulation or Federal order, the following records shall not be considered
				government records subject to public access pursuant to
				47:1A-1 et seq., as amended and
				supplemented:
1. Building plans submitted in
				conjunction with any permit application; provided, however, that this exclusion
				shall not include site plans or architectural renderings;
2. Any information concerning the location or
				contents of buildings or structures in Use Group H (high hazard) or of life hazard
				uses involving hazardous materials or substances;
3. Notices, orders, reports and decisions not yet
				served upon the person(s) to whom they are addressed;
4. Records concerning loan or tax credit
				applications in progress or negotiations between or among parties involved in any
				such application;
5. Records concerning
				contract negotiations that are not yet concluded;
6. Requests or complaints submitted by
				individuals;
7. Notes of mediators or
				other persons involved in dispute resolution;
8. Information concerning individuals as follows:
i. Information relating to medical, psychiatric or
				psychological history, diagnosis, treatment or evaluation;
ii. Home addresses, home telephone numbers or
				personal e-mail addresses;
iii.
				Information in an income or other tax return;
iv. Information describing a natural person's
				finances, income, assets, liabilities, net worth, bank balances, financial history
				or activities, or credit worthiness, except as otherwise required by law to be
				disclosed; and
v. Any other information
				the disclosure of which might reasonably be expected to endanger the safety of any
				person;
9. Test questions,
				scoring keys and other examination data pertaining to the administration of an
				examination or an application for public employment or licensing;
10. Records of another department or agency in the
				possession of this department or any agency allocated to this department when those
				records are made confidential by a regulation of that department or agency adopted
				pursuant to 47:1A-1 et seq. and Executive Order No.
				9 (Hughes 1963), or pursuant to another law authorizing the department or agency to
				make records confidential or exempt from disclosure; and
11. Records of this department or any agency
				allocated to this Department held by the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the
				State Records Storage Center of the Division of Archives and Records Management
				(DARM), in the Department of State, or an offsite storage facility outside of the
				regular business office of the agency. Such records shall remain the legal property
				of the Department and be accessible for inspection or copying only through a request
				to the proper custodian of this Department or an agency allocated to this
				Department. In the event that records of this Department or any agency allocated to
				this Department have been, or shall be, transferred to and accessioned by the State
				Archives in the Division of Archives and Records Management, all such records shall
				become the legal property of the State Archives and all requests for access to them
				shall be submitted directly to the State Archives.