New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 1A - ADMINISTRATION, ORGANIZATION, RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION REQUESTS › Subchapter 4 - OBTAINING GOVERNMENT RECORDS › Section 16:1A-4.3 - Exempt records

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The following Department records shall be
				exempt from public access:
1. Future
				construction projects in terms of specific amounts or locations;
2. Any information provided to the Department
				by construction or professional services contractors for the purposes of
				becoming prequalified or classified;
3. Research and tests required in the
				development of highway materials, design and construction;
4. Consultants' draft and final reports,
				Department draft and final preliminary planning and engineering studies and
				assessment prior to disclosure at public hearings;
5. Preliminary aircraft accident
				investigative reports;
6. Reports
				and records of aeronautical surveillance or investigation;
7. Personnel and pension records, with the
				exception of the following information:
i. An
				individual's name, title, position, salary, payroll record, length of service
				in the instrumentality of government and in the government, date of separation
				from government service and the reason for the separation and the amount and
				type of pension he or she is receiving; and
ii. Data contained in information, which
				disclose conformity with specific experimental, educational or medical
				qualifications required for government employment or for receipt of a public
				pension, but in no event shall detailed medical or psychological information be
				released;
8. Police and
				driver reports of accidents on file with the Bureau of Accident
				Records;
9. All records that are
				part of any work papers, memoranda or reports that are made, maintained or kept
				by the Office of the Inspector General in the Department of
				Transportation;
10. Bridge Survey
				Reports;
11. Research documents
				pertaining to ongoing studies for the operational areas of the Department prior
				to disclosure to the public;
12.
				Audit reports performed by Department personnel or outside agency personnel for
				the Department;
13. Bridge and
				structural records and plans relating to the Interstate Highway System,
				including all State roads;
14. Work
				papers, memoranda reports, plans, or other records that are made, maintained,
				or kept as part of any investigation by the Department into a matter involving
				any potential violation of civil or criminal law;
15. Work papers, memoranda or reports that
				are determined by the Department to be a draft or work in progress;
16. For the preservation of the
				"attorney-client privilege," all records that are part of any case file
				maintained by a Deputy Attorney General acting for the Department;
17. Appraisal review analyses; and
18. Estimates, appraisals and costs of
				acquiring right-of-way prior to the completion of a project, unless the
				requestor is a party to a Departmental eminent domain proceeding, in which
				case, disclosure of the records is subject to the provisions of the Eminent
				Domain Act,
				20:3-1 et seq., and New Jersey
				Court Rules, R. 4:73-11.