After a four and a half year investigation, the Local Finance Board (LFB), the chief enforcer of New Jersey’s Local Government Ethics Law (LGEL), found that two members of the Sayreville Borough Council (one of whom is now the mayor) violated the LGEL by voting to declare vacancies in the borough’s police department while their […]
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Internal Affairs Complaint against Lyndhurst Police
Police Accountability Project of theNew Jersey Libertarian Party December 14, 2021 Lyndhurst Police DepartmentAttn: Internal Affairs Unit367 Valley Brook AvenueLyndhurst, NJ 07071 RE: Officer Paul F. Haggerty and Lieutenant Michael Carrino Dear Sir or Madam: I chair the New Jersey Libertarian Party’s Police Accountability Project and ask that you accept this letter as our Internal […]
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Woodlynne Councilman fined $2,300 for voting for his wife to receive Borough jobs and positions.
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 […]