On March 14, 2023, the Bridgeton Board of Education (Cumberland County, NJ) agreed to pay $87,500 to a former Assistant Superintendent who claimed that the Superintendent created a toxic work environment and, after his retirement, caused him to be discharged from his new position at Rowan University. In his lawsuit, Nedd J. Johnson, who served […]
Posted inNJ Police Internal Affairs Complaints
Winslow detective pleaded guilty to petty disorderly persons charge, paid $158 in court fees and assessments, forfeited public employment and retired with $4,628 monthly pension benefit.
This occurred in mid-2021, so it’s admittedly a bit stale. However, I think it’s important that outcomes of criminal cases against police officers be put into the public realm especially when neither the charge nor the outcome were ever reported by local media, which appears to be the case here. The officer in question is […]
Posted inNJ Open Government Notes
Court mulls whether Section 230 immunizes OPRAMachine from liability for a municipal clerk’s disclosure of social security numbers.
On Friday, March 3, 2023 at 9 a.m, newly appointed New Jersey Superior Court Judge Dean R. Marcolongo will hear argument on OPRAMachine’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that claims that it is liable for allowing the unredacted social security numbers of eighty-eight people to remain on its website for fifty-three days. One of the […]
Posted inNJ Civil Settlements
Oaklyn quietly paid $250,000 to settle cop’s whistleblower lawsuit.
On December 19, 2022, the Borough of Oaklyn (Camden County) quietly paid $250,000 to a Borough police officer who claimed that he suffered retaliation after he reported “payroll irregularities” and reported the police chief for allegedly using on-duty officers as chauffeurs when the chief was too drunk to drive himself home from bars. In his […]
Posted inNJ Civil Settlements
Raritan paid $450,000 to settle lawsuit filed by a couple whose 1-year-old son was killed by impaired driver who was allegedly released prematurely by Borough police.
On January 24, 2023, the Borough of Raritan (Somerset County) paid $450,000 to a couple whose 1-year-old son was killed by a 62-year-old, intoxicated driver who Borough police had only hours before released from custody after having arrested him for heroin possession. The couple claimed that police “knew or should have known [that the driver] […]