After a three and a half-year investigation, a member of the Woodlynne Borough (Camden County) Council was tentatively fined $2,300 by the New Jersey Local Finance Board (LFB) for voting seventeen times between 2010 and 2019 to approve his wife for Borough jobs and appointed positions. In its November 24, 2021 Notice of Violation, the […]
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Monmouth County school district agrees to improve its Meetings Act compliance.
On August 12, 2021, Superior Court Judge Kerry E. Higgins signed a Consent Judgment that resolved my May 2021 pro se (i.e., I represented myself) lawsuit against a school district in Monmouth County. I filed the suit because the school board did not abide by the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA). Specifically, it did not […]
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Deptford quietly pays $300,000 to settle former employee’s racial discrimination suit.
On September 25, 2020, the Township of Deptford (Gloucester County) agreed to quietly pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former black employee who claimed that he was repeatedly referred to as “boy” and subjected to other racist comments. In his lawsuit, Lamar Johnson claimed that beginning in 2017, he was “subjected to […]
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Branchburg quietly pays $220,000 to settle female police officer’s sexual harassment suit.
On March 12, 2021, the Township of Branchburg (Somerset County) agreed to pay $220,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a female police officer (now sergeant) who claimed that her superior officers sexually harassed her, called her a “nice piece of ass,” and that one superior reached over in a patrol car and “began rubbing […]
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Wildwood paid out $80,000 to settle local businessman’s false arrest lawsuit.
On December 2, 2020, the City of Wildwood (Cape May County) agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a local bike shop owner who claimed that police falsely arrested him after he called them for assistance to slow down traffic on flooded streets. Scott Chambers, who owns Zippy’s Bikes on Pacific Avenue, […]