On Wednesday, November 7, at 1 pm, the Supreme Court will hear argument in the Lyndhurst case, concerning OPRA’s exemption for criminal investigatory records. As I’ve noted before (see, for example, here and here), this is a seminal OPRA case, which will establish new law regarding the extent of access to a wide variety of investigatory material.

The Supreme Court held argument in another law-enforcement-related OPRA case, Gilleran, around six weeks ago. The Supreme Court will probably issue its opinions in Gilleran and Lyndhurst around the same time. This means that, perhaps by early in 2017, there could be new legal standards governing whether many different types of law enforcement records  are confidential or accessible.