States in the union retain records on court documents, vehicular traffic offenses, marriage and divorce licenses, property and lien records, and more, and thanks to New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act, this data are available to the populace. All applicable details about the multitude of happenings of police officers, city courts, and local government are within these records, and generally are assumed public unless legally redacted. Little Silvers authorities and criminals are both held accountable thanks to the transparency afforded with this legislation, making Little Silver, and by extension the country, a more free and open society.