John Paff, Author at Transparency NJ

Today, in response to an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request, I received an Excel spreadsheet identifying 2,171 Local Government Officers (LGOs), including mayors, municipal council members, zoning board members, etc., who were assessed $100 fines for allegedly failing to file Financial Disclosure Statements (FDS) by the April 30, 2022 deadline. The decision to issue […]

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2,171 NJ local officials fined $100 each for failure to file Financial Disclosure Statements.

Atlantic City and Brigantine pay $1.1 million to settle suit by disabled woman who was groomed and sexually assaulted by two cops when she was a child.

Court upholds firing of Gloucester County borough cop for repeatedly having on-duty sex with a female subordinate.

Closter quietly paid $150,000 to settle former probationary cop’s discrimination, wrongful termination lawsuit.

Salem County borough’s BA resigns, gets a full year’s salary as a payout. Borough officials not allowed to disclose “the alleged factual basis” of any claims that the BA alleged against them.