About Gavin Rozzi

Gavin Rozzi is an independent journalist & web developer who has created several successful local news websites and investigative journalism platforms serving New Jersey.

His political news website Ocean County Politics quickly became a “must read” for political insiders and public officials with in-depth reporting about local government, campaign finance and revelations about investigations of public officials in Ocean County, NJ. Articles published on Ocean County Politics have been cited by local, regional & national news outlets.

Rozzi’s second web project, JerseyLeaks, a whistleblowing platform operated in collaboration with other journalists, uses encryption to provide anonymity to sources seeking to blow the whistle on matters of public corruption. This platform has helped multiple journalists securely interact with anonymous sources and disseminate materials provided by them.

In 2017 he launched OPRAmachine, a statewide freedom of information portal and the first website of its kind to serve the entire state of New Jersey. The website allows anybody to easily request public documents from state and local governmental agencies under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA).

Since its inception, OPRAmachine has developed into New Jersey’ largest archive of state, local & county public documents, making its entire archive of documents available to the public.

Ocean County Politics

• Our View: A Major Blow to Police Transparency in Ocean County
• Little Egg Official Cited for Code Violations
• GOP Assembly Leader Bramnick’s Comedy Act Finds an Audience in Ocean County

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Requests obtained from my profile on OPRAmachine:

• Pension record - James Moran

  Requested from: New Jersey Department of the Treasury

  Status: Awaiting response.

      Thanks, Department of the Treasury Government Records Access Unit 609-633-1300     STATE OF NEW JERSEY...

• Legal services contract - Cleary Giacobbe

  Requested from: Barnegat Township

  Status: Partially successful.

  Hello: Yearly Professional Contracts can be found on the Municipal website www.barnegat.net under: About - Bids - Yearly contracts     Michele Riv...

• Active911 Call Data, June 18th to August 1st, 2018

  Requested from: Toms River FD1

  Status: Follow up

  Thank you, this confirms my receipt of the records. Yours sincerely, Gavin Rozzi

I served as a teaching assistant for the following courses at Ocean County College:

• ALDC 102 - Addictions Counseling II (Fall, 2017 Semester) In this class, working with Professor Jack Brogan, I participated in an exercise that saw the students create their own jobs program for recovering addicts. Given the pervasiveness of the opioid epidemic in Ocean County, participating in this class gave me a unique perspective on the various solutions to the addiction crisis.

I also provided technology assistance throughout the semester to this class, and helped to modernize the delivery of course materials compared to methods employed in past years.

In the Fall, 2018 semester I will be serving as a teaching assistant at Stockton University. Check back here for more details on the classes I will be helping to teach.

I am available for hire as a consultant for commercial projects and partners interested in utilizing my services.

Some of the types of projects I am interested include:

• Web development projects (WordPress etc.)
• IT and technology projects (Linux and Windows server issues)
• Writing and copyediting projects
• Video production and photography

I have created this section of my website due to the numerous inquiries I receive from users of my web services.

Public records research services

Due to my reputation for making use of the New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA) for investigative reporting, I am often asked about assisting in researching a given topic for individuals and business owners using OPRA. I will soon be offering OPRA research services for those who would like to have me research a specific topic and provide them with the records I obtain.

Rates for these services will be announced on this website at a later date.

I cannot provide legal advice to you about an OPRA request or how to proceed with a specific legal strategy.

Please contact me if you would like to discuss a potential project.

Make a contribution or purchase a subscription

The easiest way to help support my work is to support me with a monthly contribution on Patreon. The biggest expense to support my operation each month is typically server space and related web hosting expenses.

If you would like to support my work with software defined radio (SDR) such as OC Radio Live, please consider subscribing to a premium plan at a reasonable monthly rate. The premium plan will enable additional features of the site as well as enable you to go as far back as two months back in time in our archives. Premium plan subscriptions help us to add more channels and defray the costs of web hosting.

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If you want to follow me or my work, be sure to follow my accounts on social media. Links to my various profiles are linked at the top of this website. If you find value in something I have created or written, please feel free to share it on social media.

• gr@gavinrozzi.com
• @gcr on Keybase.
• (732)-504-3636
• P.O. Box 32 Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey, 08734