Hudson County Commissioner Bill O’Dea (D-2) says he’s asked the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office to decide if certain sheriff’s office documents related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are public records or not.
O’Dea said he has asked the county prosecutor’s office to seek a copy of the internal memo detailing the ICE encounter in the county courthouse in February, review it, and advise the board if the document is subject to OPRA requests.
He added that if the County Prosecutor Wayne Mello refuses to do so, he will write a letter to the New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport for guidance on the matter.
“We can request the prosecutor, who. .. is the top law enforcement officer for the county, to weigh in or seek to get that document and then determine whether or not the nature of that document is quote unquote ‘an internal document’ or a document that would or should have been a report,” O’Dea explained…