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New Jersey lawmakers kicked off National Sunshine Week on Monday by advancing fast-tracked legislation that would overhaul the state’s Open Public Records Act for the first time in more than two decades, claiming the measure would “modernize” the law. That means we get more stuff when we ask the government for records, right? Not according to the people who actually file records requests. “Those who use OPRA—reporters, social justice organizations, unions, and the public—are the true experts in OPRA’s ‘problems’ and should have been involved in drafting any amendments to it,” a coalition of ad…

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