New OPRA Exemption: Name Change Records
On November 16, 2022, Governor Murphy signed Executive Order (EO) No. 311, which exempts all name change orders filed with the New Jersey Department of the Treasury after 1948 from the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). The EO aligns the Treasury Department’s records system with the Judiciary’s, which amended court rules in 2021 to ensure that all name changes records are confidential and that name changes do not need to be publicized. The goal of both the court rule change and EO 311 is to protect the privacy of those seeking gender-affirming change changes.
PartnerCJ Griffin is a partner at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden P.C. and has served as director of the firm’s Justice Gary S. Stein Public Interest Center since its founding in 2019.
For more than a decade, CJ has represented reporters and ...
