Month: June 2025

  • NJ DEP Surveillance in Wharton State Forest

    NJ DEP Surveillance in Wharton State Forest

    Through a series of public records requests (OPRAs), Open Trails NJ has uncovered that the NJ DEP’s State Park Service, not law enforcement, has installed at least 20 cameras in Wharton State Forest. Here’s what we found: OTNJ supports responsible stewardship of our forests. But this is surveillance without rules and it violates the same policies the…