Township Council Meeting — Agenda

MON L 002616-17 05/13/2019 Pg 4 of 11 Trans ID: LCV2019843985 II. The relevant facts are undisputed. On August 1, 2018, this court granted access to the internal affairs records of Philip Seidle, a former police officer, who murdered his ex-wife while he was employed by the Neptune Township Police Department. Not only was Mr. Seidle employed as an officer when he committed this horrific crime in broad daylight and in front of his young daughter, he committed the crime using his work issued service weapon. -9. , imprimatur IAPP ), which provide internal affairs records with the cloak of confidentiality. However, after reviewing over 600 pages of records in camera, and considering the factors articulated by the Court in Loigman v. Kimmelman, 102 N.J. 98, 113 (1986), in access outweighed the public interest in confidentiality to these records. The court sua sponte took judicial notice of the June 30, 2016 report issued by the Monmouth OFFICE INTERNAL REVIEW OF LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO THE KILLING OF The report, dated June 30, 2016, received significant media coverage. The court reasoned that the interest in confidentiality of the Seidle records was far less compelling, because the Prosecutor already waived confidentiality when he disclosed details opinion reveals, the Prosecutor disclosed details of eight domestic violence incidents that occurred over the course of two decades. He also revealed that Mr. Seidle had psychotherapy and was referred for several fitness for duty evaluations. Finally, he disclosed that over the course of twenty years, 2 Pa034