�������t¶��

Democratic Assemblyman Joe Danielsen said the Open Public Records Act, commonly called OPRA, was in significant need of updating.

“I look at this as a modernization of OPRA,” state Sen. Paul Sarlo, the bill’s sponsor and budget committee chairman, said.

“This is a complete gut of OPRA,” she said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

“That would be like someone making a movie about Opra Winfrey, and hiring a white girl to play Opra. Opra is an icon. We wouldn't want to change her.”

Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, a Bergen County Democrat who has long pushed for changes to strengthen OPRA, said that the Legislature streams committee hearings and sessions in real time on its website and regularly updates information about bills.