Irvington Township has dropped its lawsuit against a senior citizen who had been accused of harassing town employees by filing too many requests under the state’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA).
The I-Team was first to report on the unusual legal complaint, in which Irvington’s municipal government accused Elouise McDaniel, 82, of seeking a “burdensome” number of records and writing “frivolous letters and complaints” to state and federal agencies. In court documents, Irvington argued McDaniel’s requests and letters were sent “without reasonable basis or cause, were otherwise meritless or frivolous and were done maliciously and with the sole purpose and intent to harass, abuse and harm Plaintiffs and the
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