linkedin.com/in/Ldepaz · luisdepaz.com · Bergen County, New Jersey
Exact where it counts. Modern where it helps.
A municipal government professional in Bergen County, New Jersey, with nearly 10 years in county, township and borough government.
Today he is secretary to four municipal boards, handles hundreds of public records requests a year and works with frontier AI every day.
Today he is secretary to four municipal boards and handles hundreds of public records requests a year. He also works with frontier AI every day, and he brings to a town hall both the discipline of the public record and the judgment to modernize it.
Tile map of Bergen County’s 70 municipalities, with his three posts marked
Each square is one of Bergen County’s 70 municipalities, placed by approximate location with north at the top. Clay-colored squares, joined by a drawn line from the county seat to Saddle River, mark where his three posts were based: the Borough of Saddle River since 2023, the Township of Teaneck from 2020 to 2023, and Hackensack, the county seat, as the base of his County of Bergen post from 2017 to 2020. Use the arrow keys to move between municipalities. A list of all 70 follows the map.
One square for each of the 70, placed by approximate location. Not to scale.
Today he is secretary to four municipal boards, handles hundreds of public records requests a year and works with frontier AI every day.
Get to know me
He has served local government at three scales: Bergen County, a county of nearly 1 million; Teaneck, a township of 41,000; and Saddle River, a borough of 3,400. He knows how county and municipal governments hand work to one another, and he serves the public in English and Spanish.
Highlights
Each square stands for one thing: a year, a local government, a board, a page, a meeting, a request.
Nearly 10 years of public service, 2017 to the present
3 local governments: a county, a township and a borough
4 boards and commissions he serves as secretary
More than two dozen web pages rebuilt
About 48 evening board meetings a year
240 to 360 public records requests a year: 20 to 30 a month, 240 in a usual year and up to 120 more in a busy one
Nearly 1 million
In Bergen County, New Jersey’s most populous county, where he worked directly for the County Executive
70
All of Bergen County, the area his county outreach role covered
Strengths
The statutory work of a municipality, done by the book, and the modern tools to do it better.
Notices, agendas, roll call and minutes for four boards, at about four evening meetings a month, all year.
Between 20 and 30 requests a month under the Open Public Records Act, from acknowledgment to redaction.
The Planning Board’s files, 200-foot notices, escrow calculations and the resolutions recording its decisions.
Oaths of office, resolutions and ordinances, Election Day polling places and liquor license renewals.
More than two dozen Borough pages rebuilt on one page system, with a guide that lets staff keep them current.
Daily work with frontier AI, his own AI agent under written rules, and tests published before they run.
Selected work
Luis rebuilt more than two dozen department, board and service pages for the Borough of Saddle River on one shared design, inside the content management system the Borough already uses, so staff can edit them without a developer.
Published work: 10 sourced notes, a free toolkit and three Lab protocols.
What I stand for
AI is part of his daily work, from building software with coding agents to running his own agent under written rules. Four principles decide what reaches public work.
He starts with the task, the people who do it and the record it produces. The tool comes last.
He decides up front what a model may see, what stays off-limits and what the public will see.
A tool has to beat the same job done well without AI, including the time spent checking its work. He writes down every failure.
A named person signs off on anything official. No model approves, publishes or speaks for a government.
Whether you lead a town, serve on its governing body or run one of its offices, Luis would be glad to hear from you.
He reads every message himself and replies within two business days.