![]() The seven state officials who either sent or received the newly released and redacted emails are Doherty Schiff-Heedles Susan Sweeney, an administrator at the veterans affairs department Kristina Chubenko, the director of the governor's Office of Employee Relations Annette Smith, an employee relations manager at veterans affairs Timothy Ballard, an administrator at a veterans home in Vineland and Yvonne Catley, deputy director of the employee relations office. All three were denied for being “over broad” - even though each new request asked for more specific documents than the one before it. The Record and made three requests via the state's Open Public Records Act, or OPRA, for communication between Doherty and the governor’s office over the mask policy. ![]() The next day, Doherty said he received guidance from the governor’s Office of Employee Relations about how to discipline nurses caught taking and using masks without permission. The short string of emails released by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office include communications between Jared Doherty, an attorney for the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, and officials in Murphy's office regarding face masks.Įmails released earlier this year under prior records requests by The Record and showed that on March 26, Doherty told Elizabeth Schiff-Heedles, the CEO of the Menlo Park veterans home at the time, that he would draft an order barring a longtime nurse from wearing masks or handing them out to her staff. In response to a public records request by The Record and for communication within the Murphy administration over a lack of mask-wearing at the state veterans home as the COVID pandemic spread in the spring, the state has released a handful of new emails, but they are so heavily redacted that it's impossible to know what they might say. ![]()
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