Burlington

The copier in the Camden County Clerk’s Office is a cash cow no more. After charging citizens $1 per page to use the self-service copier in its office to duplicate public documents, the clerk’s office was ordered by the New Jersey courts to slash its rates to just 5 cents a copy—and refund nearly $1 million to taxpayers. The ruling, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer, came about after a local contractor sued Camden and Burlington counties for price gouging. (Burlington was charging 50 cents.) The suit contended the counties had a captive audience, since taxpayers weren’t permitted to copy the documents elsewhere. Now