Your right to know
OPRAmachine is an online platform that allows individuals to submit & browse requests for public records made under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act.
Since October, 2017, OPRAmachine has seen:
- 13721 public records requests
- 7110 followup messages sent
- 2440 registered users
- 1246 public bodies
- 183 annotations added to requests
- 824 tracked requests
OPRAmachine Announces Research Grant Award Winners
OPRAmachine Research Paper - Now Published!
The OPRAmachine research paper, entitled “The first statewide, open access dataset tracking public records requests in New Jersey” has now been published in the peer-reviewed journal Data in Brief. The journal article describes the data collection infrastructure powering the site, as well as makes available detailed metadata on thousands of requests submitted via OPRAmachine.
You can read the article here
Planned Maintenance - Weekend of 8/16/2020
Please note that there will be some planned downtime this weekend as we work to complete scheduled server maintenance and upgrades to the OPRAmachine service.
Full service will be restored by Monday. Thank you for your patience as we work to make OPRAmachine even better for our users.
Planned Maintenance - Weekend of 6/6/2020
Please note that there will be some planned downtime this weekend as we work to complete scheduled server maintenance and upgrades to the OPRAmachine service.
Full service will be restored by Monday. Thank you for your patience as we work to make OPRAmachine even better for our users.
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Statement on Cyber Attacks Impacting OPRAmachine
County Board of Elections Update
Elimination of Phone Support
Planned Maintenance - Weekend of 8/17/2019
There will be some planned downtime this weekend as we work to complete scheduled server maintenance and upgrades to the OPRAmachine service. Full service will be restored by Monday. Thank you for your patience as we work to make OPRAmachine even better!