The American Civil Liberties Union’s New Jersey chapter has lodged a suit against the state Department of Health, claiming the agency dragged its feet and ultimately violated the Open Public Records Act in withholding documents about the state’s handling of the Ebola threat.

The OPRA request, filed late last October, closely followed the state’s quarantining of a nurse who was detained at Newark Liberty International Airport after returning from treating Ebola patients in Africa.

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