The interstate agreement that created the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey makes it exempt from either state’s laws governing release of public records, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Thursday.
“A political compact, by its very nature, shifts a part of a state’s authority to another state or states, or to the agency the several states jointly create to run the compact,” the Appellate Division held in Dittrich v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, A-1289-11, rejecting a claim that the New Jersey Open Public Records Act applies.
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